Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS City of Sydney

I, Wm B. Seabury, Master of the City of Sydney 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 & 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) Wm B. Seabury
Sworn to this 12th day of October 1894, before me, (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the City of Sydney whereof Wm B. Seabury is Master, from Panama, burthen 1965.83 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* Man   Yen ??     40 Merchant Panama   Landed "I.T." Transit List 3827 Departed per Steamer Gaelic, Hong Kong, Oct 10, 1894
2* Sam   Om  N?zman 47 Merchant Panama   Landed "I.T." Transit List 3826 Departed per Steamer Gaelic, Hong Kong, Oct 10, 1894
3  Yip   Man Ying   34 Merchant Panama   Landed "I.T." Transit List 3825 Departed per Steamer Gaelic, Hong Kong, Oct 10, 1894
4* Chin  C?n        30 Merchant Acajutla Landed "I.T." Transit List 3824 Departed per Steamer Gaelic, Hong Kong, Oct 10, 1894
5* Fon   ?hon       25 Merchant Acajutla Landed "I.T." Transit List ?    Departed per Steamer Gaelic, Hong Kong, Oct 10, 1894


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) 1892 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:
 No of Certificate
 Height
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification 
 If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts

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.

1  Third name Could be Io.  It seems to begin with I followed by a circle with several
    strokes through it.
2  Third name could be Nizman.  There is no dot over the second letter and no second upward
    stroke to make it a u.
4  Second name is Can or Con.
5  Second name looks like chon with a lower case c, but there is a horizontal stroke above
    it as if to cross a T, except that it is too low and there is no vertical stroke to
    create the T.

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