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SS City of Peking

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Hong Kong Colony and Yokohama, Japan to San Francisco, CA
May 26, 1894

LIST OR MANIFEST OF ALIEN IMMIGRANTS FOR THE COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION.
Required by the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, under Act of Congress, approved March 3, 1893, to be delivered to the Commissioner of Immigration by the Commanding Officer of any vessel having such passengers on board upon arrival at a port in the United States.
S.S. City of Peking, sailing from Hong Kong, May 3d, 1894 arriving at Port of San Francisco, May 26, 1894.
Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, Sex, Married or Single, Occupation, Nationality, Last Residence, Final Destination in the US, Whether in Possession of Money-if less than $30, how much?, Whether ever before in the US, Whether going to join Relative or Friend 
  
 1* Emilie      Cohen    39y2m female married none      Russian  Sumatra   San Fran        yes yes

       Sailing from Yokohama May 12th, 1894

 2* Toshinosuke Kikuchi  36y3m male   No      Merchant  Japanese Tokyo     San Fran   $30  yes no
 3* Miss Tsuma  Aoki     18y2m female No      Student   Japanese Tokyo     San Fran   $40  no  no
 4* Kichishiro  Okubo    44y1m male   yes     Teapacker Japanese Kanegawa  San Fran   $150 yes no
 5* Choshiro    Saigusa  32y6m male   yes     Merchant  Japanese Yamanishi San Fran   250  yes no
 6* Sensuke     Nakamoto 20y3m male   No      Student   Japanese Yamanishi San Fran   30   no  no
 7* Sakamatsu   Kawamura 22y7m male   No      Student   Japanese Yamaguchi San Fran   30   no  no
 8* Yonizo      Oikawa   33y7m male   yes     Merchant  Japanese Kanagawa  San Fran   $30  yes no
 9* Yojiro      Hoshino  21y4m male   yes     Student   Japanese Kanagawa  San Fran   $35  no  no
10* Tozaburo    Imano    23y1m male   No      Student   Japanese Miyagi    Menlo Park yes  no  no

    
Transcriber's Notes:
There is no captain's statement nor captain's name attached to this manifest.  
The Whether in Possession of Money column has only yes entered for passengers 
from Yokohama.  
There are entries written in at the far right of the manifest that have been 
transcribed here.
The following columns had identical entries for all passengers and so were not 
included in the table:
 Able to Read & Write=yes 
 Seaport for Landing in the US=San Francisco  
 Whether having a ticket to final destination=yes 
 By whom was passage paid?=self 
 Whether ever in Prison, Almshouse or supported by Charity=no
 Whether a Polygamist=no
 Whether under contract to labor in the US=no
 Condition of Health Mental and Physical=good
 Whether having any deformities=no 


1   nationality is recorded as Russian Jew.  The Money column says under 30, but 
     $300 is written below in another hand.
2   has been to Oakland, Cal 1893.  
3   There is a note at the bottom of the list that says "Tsuma Aoki is going to 
     Japanese ??? (possibly Mission) in Oakland to school at 5th and Brush 
     No 763 Brush St."  
2-7 money is Japanese.
4   has been to San Francisco twice 1890.
5   has been to San Francisco once 1893.
8   has been to San Francisco twice 1886-1891.
8-9 money is American.
10  There is a note at the bottom of the list that says "Tozaburo Imani is going 
     to Stanford University Has $30 Japanese money."  The names on the list and in 
     the note were written by two different people.  Imano could possibly be Imario. 
     Imani in the note could be Imaru.
Page 2 Chinese Passengers
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 2, Page 78-79.
Transcribed by Fran Taylor a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
26 May 2000

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