Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS San Jose

I, W.J. Russell, Master of the San Jose 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 etc 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.J. Russell
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 San Jose whereof W.J. Russell is Master, from Panama, burthen 1538.28 tons

Columns represent: Number, No of Certificate*, Name, Age, Sex*, 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*.

     Cabin from South America in transit for Hong Kong

 1* Domingo ?ox         36 Male Merchant Callao* Landed  "I.T." Transit List 3762
 2* Fong    Chong       32 Male Merchant Callao* Landed  "I.T." Transit List 3765
 3* E.   Sunnehim       28 Male Merchant Callao* Landed  "I.T." Transit List 3766
 4  Chong   Pang        46 Male Merchant Callao* Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894        
 5  Ah      Chong       45 Male Merchant Callao* Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894        

     Steerage from New York for San Francisco

 6* A. L.   ?ing        32 Male Waiter   NYork   Landed Aug 28   

     Steerage from Panama in transit for Hong Kong

 7* Pon     Pok   Shuen 48 Male Trader   Panama  Landed  "I.T." Transit List 3767
 8  Cheong  Pow   Yuen  60 Male Trader   Panama  Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894        
 9* F???    Kuen        39 Male Trader   Panama  Landed  "I.T." Transit List 3764
10  Loe     Lau         31 Male Trader   Panama  Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894
11  Fong    King  Ling  43 Male Trader   Panama  Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894        
12  Fong    Chock Yuang 58 Male Trader   Panama  Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894        
13* Pablo   Ramon        4 Male Trader   Panama  Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894        
14*   & child           45 Male Trader   Panama  Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894        
15  You     Quai        46 Male Trader   Panama  Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894        
16  Ah      Fook        56 Male Trader   Panama  Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894        
17  Ma      Thong       21 Male Trader   Panama  Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894        
18* Ip      Chue        30 Male Trader   Panama  Landed  "I.T." Transit List 3763
19  Hen     Chong       35 Male Trader   Panama  Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894        
20* Chag    Loui           Male Trader   Panama  Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Aug 28 1894

             Recapitulation  Whole  Imation?* Total
               From NYork     1                1
                Panama etc   18       1       19
                             19               20
"This list shows a total of 20 individuals (Recapitulation) but only counts up 19.  On enquiry
 at P.M.S.S. Co's office I am informed that the name Chag Loui was omitted from above list.  
 (signature) O'Leary"  


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.

Question marks replace missing or illegible entries.

The categories of passengers in the recapitulation are difficult to read and interpret.
 The first column is clearly labled "Whole" The title of the second column is more 
 difficult to read but appears to be Imation.

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.
 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
 Height
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification
 If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts

The Sex column was added by the original completer.

Callao is the port city for Lima.

1-3    departed per SS China Aug 28, 1894.
1      second name looks like Pox but the P is somewhat different from other P examples.
       It could be Fox, but the letter also differs from other F examples.
6      name could be King or Hing.  Occupation is "Waiter from USS Alliance."  The final 
       column says: "servant on U.S.S. Alliance, see letter from Captain Read Mare Island, 
       Aug 24, 1894."
7,9,17 departed per SS China Aug 28, 1894. 
13-14  The ages of these passengers seem to be transposed.
20     Apparently Mr O'Leary added this name to the list.  It is written in
       a hand different from the rest. (see above comment after Recapitulation)

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