Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Colima

I, John F. Taylor, Master of the Am Str Colima do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear that the following List or Manifest, subscribed by me, and now delivered by me to the Collector of the Customs of the Collection District of San Francisco, is a full and perfect list of all Chinese passengers taken on board the said vessel at Panama & Way Ports from which port said vessel has now arrived, or that have been taken on board the said vessel at any foreign port or place, and of all such passengers now on board said vessel, and that on said List is truly designated the names and other particulars, as shown by their respective certificates.So help me God. (signature) John F. Taylor
Sworn to this 20 day of Aug 1894, before me, (signature) NS Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Am Str Colima whereof John F. Taylor is Master, from Panama & Way Ports, burthen 2143.85 tons

Columns represent: Number, No of Certificate*, Name, Age*, Occupation*, Last Place of Residence, Height*, Complexion*, Color of Eyes*, Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification*, If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts*.

1  Domingo Villacampo Panama Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894
2  Fran^co Chunzan    Panama Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894
3  M.      Henderson  Panama Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894
4  Low     Chong      Panama Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894
5  Jam     Sow        Panama Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894
6  Wong    Cock       Panama Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894
7* Ah      Hong       Panama Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894
8* Lou     Fon        Panama Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894
9  Loh     Ahu        Panama Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894

         Total No of Chinese  (9) Nine
     3 Chinese represented as crew of the Clyde [which came up an tow]* 
      of Colima, departed per China Aug 28 94*
 

Transcriber's Notes:

* An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder, not the transcriber,
  or calls attention to additional information in the transcriber notes.

The pages on this film are not numbered so finding a particular ship can be difficult.  
 However, there appears to be a system of numbering the manifests.  In this portion of 
 the film the numbers are not in exact order.  These numbers are included in the 
 identification of the film and reel numbers below.

The departure port is listed as simply Panama.  Research indicates this refers to 
 Panama City.

The portion of the note at the bottom of the page that is in brackets is the best interpretation
 possible.  The remainder of the note is easy to read.

For passengers bound for San Francisco, passengers' names and ages are followed by a stamp 
 that varies depending on the disposition of the passenger.
Passengers allowed to land have the following stamp:
 Landed Collectors order (blank with a month and day date written in) 1893 by  Insp's (blank 
 for a name,). 
 
Passengers not allowed to land have one of two different stamps:
 Landing Refused Habeas Corpus U.S.D.C. Case followed by a number.  These passengers were probably 
  allowed to land, but not to freely enter the country.
 Landing Refused Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date).

For passengers bound for a further destination there are two possible dispositions:
  Landed "I.T." Transit List followed by a number  
  Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date)

The following columns had no entries and are not included in the table:
 No of Certificate
 Age
 Occupation
 Height
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification
 If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts

7-8 Passenger 8 has a  Landed "I.T." Transit List stamp with the  number 376?.  Passenger
     7 has no stamp but has a number 37?3, usually a Transit List number.

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