Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Oceanic

I, W.M. Smith, Master of the O & O S.S. Oceanic 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 Hong Kong 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) W.M. Smith
Sworn to this 1st day of Feb 1895, before me, (signature) N S Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the S.S. Oceanic whereof W.M. Smith is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 3808 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.

			For San Francisco						

 1  1  Chew  Ling         39 San Francisco Landed 4-Feb  Affadavit Merchant
 2  2  Chin  Chung  Chen  41 Fresno        Landed 9-Feb  Affadavit Merchant
 3  3  Loui  Poe          33 Los Angeles   Refused Departed per Oceanic Hong Kong Feb 12 1895             
 4  4  Loui  Yuen         33 Los Angeles   Refused Departed per Oceanic Hong Kong Feb 12 1895     
 5* 5  Chun  Jun   Yow    42 San Francisco Landed 9-Feb  wife of Merchant
 6  6  Seeto Sing  Ock    32 Martinez      Landed 9-Feb  Affadavit Merchant
 7  15 Mak   Chong Lee    31 Arizona       Landed 9-Feb  Affadavit Merchant
 8  16 Look  Hin          43 San Francisco Landed 9-Feb  Affadavit Merchant
 9  17 Leong Pang         51 N.O.Louisiana Landed 9-Feb  Affadavit Merchant
10  18 Tam   Hing  Ching  42 San Francisco Landed 9-Feb  Affadavit Merchant
11  19 Jung  My           25 N.O.Louisiana Landed 8-Feb  Affadavit Merchant
12  20 Leong Kong         46 N.O.Louisian  Landed 11-Feb Affadavit Merchant
13  22 Lee   Hoy          28 San Francisco Landed 11-Feb Affadavit Merchant
14  23 Ho    Fook         32 Stockton      Landed 11-Feb Affadavit Merchant

     For San Francisco 13 men 1 woman
                                                                .
                        For Havana                                      

15* 7  Chae  On           25               Landed "I.T." Transit List 4039
16* 8  Wong  Ping         30               Landed "I.T." Transit List 4040
17* 9  Wong  See          28               Landed "I.T." Transit List 4041
18  10 Sue   Yong         21               Departed per San Juan Panama Feb 8 1895        
19  11 Ng    Poy   Chuen  48               Departed per San Juan Panama Feb 8 1895        
20* 12 Luk   Pun          31               Landed "I.T." Transit List 4042
21* 13 Fong  Ning         46               Landed "I.T." Transit List 4043
22* 14 Leong Kee          24               Landed "I.T." Transit List 4044
23* 21 Fong  Chan         38               Landed "I.T." Transit List 4045

      For Havana 9 men


Transcriber's Notes:

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

Question marks replace illegible information or letters.

The pages on this film are not numbered so finding a particular ship can be difficult.  
 However, there is a system of numbering the manifests that is part of the filing system
 for Chinese persons at the National Archives.  These numbers are included in the 
 identification of the film and reel numbers below.

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) 1895 by  Insp's (blank 
 for a name, in this case Grant). 
 
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.  The National Archives should have
  a file for these passengers describing what happened to them.
 Landing 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:
 Height
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification

Occupation is Grocer for all passengers but number 5.  Occupation is universally recorded 
 as Merchant or Grocer because following the Chinese Exclusion Act of May 6, 1882 admission 
 was denied to all Chinese except laborers already in the US and "students, teachers, 
 merchants or those proceeding to the United States from curiosity."

According to the National Archives branch in San Bruno, California it is possible that they have
 some information on any Chinese passenger who arrived in San Francisco after 1886.

5  Occupation is "woman."  There is something written under the landed stamp but nearly all 
   of it is illegible.  On other lists it is common that the husband's name and store
   is written in.  All that can be deciphered here is "Market St."
15-17,20-23  Departed per SPRR Feby 4, 1895.  This is probably Southern Pacific Railroad.

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