Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Colon

I, Geo MacKinnon, Master of the SS Colon 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) Geo Mackinnon*
Sworn to this 2nd 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 SS Colon whereof Geo MacKinnon is Master, from Panama & Way Ports, burthen 1843.50 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* Pablo  Quant  28y  Merchant  San Frco  1887          Landed "I.T." Transit List 3757
2* Lola   Quant  22y  his wife  Salvador                       (not Chinese)
3* Wm     Quant   2y  his son   Salvador                Landed "I.T." Transit List 3759
4* Manuel Quant   8m  his son   Salvador                Landed "I.T." Transit List 3760
5* Fong   Git    33y  Merchant  San Frco  Sept 11-1889  Landed "I.T." Transit List 3761
6  Low    Yun    26y  Merchant  San Frco  Aug 2nd 1892  Departed per Steamer Gaelic Hong Kong Aug 7, 1894 


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 Captain's name appears on the manifest threee times.  Two are have a capital K, the third,
 his signature, does not.  

For passengers bound for San Francisco, passengers' names and ages are followed by a stamp 
 that varies depending on the disposition of the passenger and which is stamped over whatever 
 information has been entered in the columns. 
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, in this case Grant). Many of these passengers have a place name written over 
 the stamp. Where a blank is transcribed in this column no place has been written in.  Where 
 there is a question mark the entry is illegible.
 
Passengers not allowed to land have one of two different stamps:
 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.
 Refused Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date).

For passengers bound for a further port 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
 Height
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification

If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts has No written at the top of the page,
 for passenger 1. There is a lot of scribbled writing in the area below this No so it is 
 impossible to determine whether the remaining passengers have entries as well.

1-5  There is a note for these passengers that is difficult to read.  It appears to
     state that they also departed on the SS Gaelic.
2    Since this passenger is not Chinese she needed no certification nor documents to land.
2-4  There is a note attached to the page: "Mrs Pablo Quant and two children are natives
     of San Salvador, The Chinese have no custom house certificates as far as I know.
     E.B. McManus, Purser" 

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