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 and Champerico 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 20th 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 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*.

      From Panama in transit to Hong Kong

1* ?an   Qui 31 Male Laborer  Panama     Departed per Str Coptic Hong Kong April 23 '95
2* Ch??  Chi 28      Laborer  Panama     Departed per Str Coptic Hong Kong April 23 '95

      From Panama in transit to Champerico*

3* Chu   Lai 28 Male Laborer  Guatemala Landed "I.T." Transit List 4227
4* Chang Yeo 32      Merchant           Landed "I.T." Transit List 4224
5* Leon  Ji  13      none               Landed "I.T." Transit List 4225


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

The Sex column was added by the completer.  Male is written at the top of the column for
 each group of passengers.  It is common on passenger lists to use ditto marks for 
 passengers below the first one.  Ditto marks are not visible in the Sex column, but 
 may have been obscured in the filming.

Champerico is on the Pacific coast of Guatemala.

1   Missing letter looks most like P, Pan but could be R, Ran.
2   First name is either Chim or Chun.
3-5 Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, May 4, 1895.

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