Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS City of Sydney

I, F.H. Johnston, 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 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) F.H. Johnston
Sworn to this 23 day of Feb 1895, 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 F.H. Johnston is Master, from Panama, burthen 1965.83 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*.

1  Ah    Sik         50 M Trader Panama     Departed per Steamer Gaelic Hong Kong Mar 5 1895
2  Mu    Huie  Yao   30 M Trader Panama     Departed per Steamer Gaelic Hong Kong Mar 5 1896
3  Lee   Chang Seo   40 M Trader Panama     Departed per Steamer Gaelic Hong Kong Mar 5 1897
4  Chang Lee   Yaun  50 F Trader Panama     Departed per Steamer Gaelic Hong Kong Mar 5 1898
5  Lee   Sang  Seo   60 M Trader Panama     Departed per Steamer Gaelic Hong Kong Mar 5 1899
6  Ah    Loy         31 M Trader Panama     Departed per Steamer Gaelic Hong Kong Mar 5 1900
7  Can   Ah    Yang  50 M Trader Panama     Departed per Steamer Gaelic Hong Kong Mar 5 1901
8* Mi?   Comb        40 M Trader Panama     Departed per Steamer Gaelic Hong Kong Mar 5 1902
9* Fong  On    Chang 32 M Trader Champerico Landed "I.T." Transit List 4052


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 part of the filing system
 for Chinese persons at the National Archives.  These numbers are included in the 
 identification of the film and reel numbers below.

The departure port is listed as simply "Panama"  Research indicatges 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. 
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 often 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 officers of Chinese Government, state facts

The Sex column was added by the completer.

8 Name is Mik or Mie.
9 There may be more information about the final destination of this passenger but it is either
   obscured by other writing or torn from the page.

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