Immigrant Ships
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SS City of Rio de Janeiro

I, J. Tremaine Smith, Master of the City of Rio de Janeiro 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) J.T. Smith
Sworn to this 24 day of Sep 1894, before me, JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the City of Rio de Janeiro whereof J. Tremaine Smith is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 2275.45 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 Frrancisco

 1  Nov 14-92 Peng   Gee         33 Landed 28-Sep Affdt Merchant
 2  Dec 13-92 Yee    Quin        29 Landed 28-Sep Affdt Merchant
 3  Mar 8-89  Tom    Heong       46 Landed 28-Sep Affdt Merchant
 4* Aug 1-93  Mrs Di Gum         38 Landed 26-Sep wife of Physician
 5  Dec 11-93 Ng     Sun  Pock   20 Landed 3-Oct  Affdt Merchant
 6  Nov 7-93  Cing   Fun  Sick   41 Landed 28-Sep Affdt Merchan
 7  Mar 5-94  Leong  Kwong       27 Landed 28-Sep Affdt Merchant
 8  Aug 29-92 Yee    Hong        26 Landed 29-Sep Affdt Merchant
 9  ? 31-93   Walk   Yuen Chee   23 Landed 3-Oct  Affdt Merchant
10  Apr 2-92  Sum    Lun  Chong  32 Landed 3-Oct  Affdt Merchant
11*           Ah     Yow            Landed 26-Sep Physician's daughter

        Panama    

12            Wong   King Yue    36 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894             
13            Wong   Gim  Hing   23 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894             
14            Kwong  Chee        23 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894             
15            Wong   Kow         29 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894
16            Wong   Hoon        24 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894
17            Wong   Hoy         20 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894
18            Ho     Sew         25 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894
19            Chun   Chan        38 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894
20            Soo    Chun        60 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894
21            Lee    Wo          28 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894

        Havana

22            Chun   Qwan Kwong  30 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894
23            Low    Chin        25 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894
24            Chow   Sha  Kan    29 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894
25            Chow   Koon Cheang 25 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894
26            Chow   Tai  Hong   22 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894
27            Yew    Yow         20 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894
28            Tam    Cheong Won  23 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894
298           Tam    Qwan        35 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894
30            Ching  Mee  Cheong 32 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894
31            Hue    On          52 Departed per steamer San Blas Panama Sep 28 1894

           Recapitulation
      San Francisco 9 Males & 2 Females
       Panama      10 Males
       Havana      10 Males
           Total   31


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 inforamtion 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 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.

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) 1894 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 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:
 Last Place of Residence
 Height
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification

Occupation is Grocer for all male passengers.  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."
 
 4  Occupation is to join her husband.
10  Occupation is with her aunt #22.  There is no indication of numbers for the passengers
    on the list.  This number may refer to the ticket number which is not recorded.

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