Immigrant Ships
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SS San Juan

I, W.G. Pitts, Master of the S.S. San Juan 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 Mazatlan 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.G. Pitts

Sworn to this 8 day of April 1895, before me, (signature) NS Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the San Juan whereof W.G. Pitts is Master, from Panama and Way Ports, burthen 1496.45 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 oficers of Chinese Government, state facts*.

For Hong Kong in Transit*
1* Charles Ch???        ?   Departed per Peru
 
2* Yen Fun Cuok  52  Merchant  Mazatlan  Landed "I.T." Transit List


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, 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  These passengers expected to
  travel over land (by rail) 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
 Height
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification 
 If accredited oficers of Chinese Government, state facts

1  This entry is at the bottom of the page and much of it is cut off.  Surname
   might be Ching. Passenger is listed as "For Hong Kong In Transit".
2  There is a note: "US Consular certificate from Mazatlan, Departed per Str
   Colima May 18, '95  Panama. Passenger is listed as "For Hong Kong in
   Transit

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