Immigrant Ships
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SS San Blas

I, W.H. McLean, Master of the SS San Blas 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 and 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) W.H. McLean
Sworn to this 26 day of Sept 1895, before me, (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the SS San Blas whereof W.H. McLean is Master, from Panama and Way Ports, burthen 1496.5 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*.

                             In Transit for Hong Kong

 1  Chong   Yeo        48 Merchant    Panama     5'6" Departed per SS Gaelic, Hong Kong, October 1, 1895
 2  Chong   Hee        33 Merchant    Panama     5'4" Departed per SS Gaelic, Hong Kong, October 1, 1895
 3  Chong   Yoh   Yam  40 Merchant    Panama     5'5" Departed per SS Gaelic, Hong Kong, October 1, 1895
 4* You     F??k       51 Merchant    Panama     5'3" Departed per SS Gaelic, Hong Kong, October 1, 1895
 5  Chan    Pon   Ling 30 Merchant    Panama     5'6" Departed per SS Gaelic, Hong Kong, October 1, 1895
 6  Lee     Yack       31 Merchant    Panama     5'2" Departed per SS Gaelic, Hong Kong, October 1, 1895
 7  Chan    Ching Yam  36 Merchant    Panama     5'4" Departed per SS Gaelic, Hong Kong, October 1, 1895
 8  Hee     Lam        49 Merchant    Panama     5'6" Departed per SS Gaelic, Hong Kong, October 1, 1895
 9* H?ip    Pin   Che  40 Merchant    Panama     5'5" Departed per SS Gaelic, Hong Kong, October 1, 1895
10  Ah      Hang       27 Merchant    Panama     5'3" Departed per SS Gaelic, Hong Kong, October 1, 1895
11  Ching   Bing       30 Shirt Maker Champerico 5'5" Departed per SS Gaelic, Hong Kong, October 1, 1895
12* Mrs Gee Ah    Yoi  28 none        Mazatlan   5'1" Departed per SS City of Peking, Hong Kong, Oct 12, 1895
13* Yang    Hon         5 none        Mazatlan   3'2" Departed per SS City of Peking, Hong Kong, Oct 12, 1895
14* Mrs Gee Ah    Gan  23 none        Mazatlan   5'0" Departed per SS City of Peking, Hong Kong, Oct 12, 1895
15* Jorge   Buy        21 Merchant    Mazatlan   5'0" Departed per SS City of Peking, Hong Kong, Oct 12, 1895


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 is a system of numbering the manifests that is a part of the National
 Archives file system on Chinese persons.  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.

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) 1895 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  These passengers expected to continue travel 
   by some other means to their destinations.
  Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date)

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

Complexion is Yellow and Eyes are Black for all passengers.

4     Second name is probably Fook, but the line following the first o comes down a bit
       and the second o is completely filled in so the name could be Fack.
9     First name is probably Hip but there the i has an "introductory" line that
       could make the name Heip.
12-15 Transferred to Peking this Oct 12/95 one man 2 women & 1 child.

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