Most serene, most powerful prince regent, most gracious regent and Lord,
I was born in Kallstadt on March 14th, 1869. My parents were honest, plain, Pais vineyard workers, they strictly held me to everything good, to diligence and piety, to regular attendance in school and church, to absolute obedience to the high authority. After my confirmation in 1882, I apprenticed to become a barber. I emigrated in 1885 in my 16th year. In America I carried on my business with diligence, discretion and prudence. God’s blessing was with me and I became rich. I attend American citizenship in 1892. In 1902, I met my current wife. Sadly, she could not tolerate the climate in New York and I went with my dear family back to Kallstadt.
The town was glad to have received a capable and productive citizen, my old mother was happy to see her son, her dear daughter-in-law and her granddaughter around her. She knows now that I will take care of her in her old age, but we are confronted all at once as if by a lightening strike from fair skies, with the news that the high royal state ministry has decided that we must leave our residence in the kingdom of Bavaria. We were paralyzed with fright. Our happy family life was tarnished. My wife has been overcome by anxiety and my lovely child has become sick.
Why should we be deported? This is very, very hard for a family. What will our fellow citizens think if honest subjects are faced with such a decree? Not to mention the great material losses it would incur?
I would like to become a Bavarian citizen again. In this urgent situation, I have no other recourse but to turn to our adored, noble, wise and just, sovereign Lord, are ex-aulted ruler, his royal is the highest, the highest of all, who has already dried so many tears, who has ruled so beneficially and justly and wisely and softly, and is warmly, and is deeply loved with the most humble request that the highest of all will, himself, in mercy dane to allow applicant to stay in the most gracious kingdom of Bavarian.