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SS City of Peking
LIST OR MANIFEST OF ALIEN IMMIGRANTS FOR THE COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION.
Required by the regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, under Act of Congress, approved March 3, 1893, to be delivered to the Commissioner of Immigration by the Commanding Officer of any vessel having such passengers on board upon arrival at a port in the United States.
S.S. City of Peking, sailing from Yokohama, July 26th, 1894 arriving at Port of San Francisco, Aug 10, 1894.
Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, Married or Single*, Occupation, Nationality, Last Residence, Whether ever before in the US, Whether going to join Relative or Friend
1* Menasseh Joseph 51y9m yes Clerk Turkish Hong Kong No yes
2* Silas Joseph 26y3m No Clerk Turkish Hong Kong No yes
3 Yukichi Takuda 16y8m No Student Japanese Tokyo No No
4 Mitsutaro Matsuda 16y9m No Student Japanese Totorri No No
5* Kamesaburo Naito 25y6m No Student Japanese Saitama yes No
Transcriber's Notes:
There is no captain's statement nor captain's name attached to this manifest.
The following columns had identical entries for all passengers and so were
not included in the table:
Sex=Male
Able to Read & Write=Yes
Seaport for Landing in the US=San Francisco
Final Destination in the US=San Francisco
Whether having a ticket to final destination=Yes
By whom was passage paid?=Himself
Whether in Possession of Money-if less than $30, how much?=yes
Whether ever in Prison, Almshouse or supported by Charity=no
Whether a Polygamist=no
Whether under contract to labor in the US=no
Condition of Health Mental and Physical=good
Whether having any deformities=no
The married or Single column has "or Single" crossed out, leaving Married.
Letters that are illegible or difficult to interpret are replaced by ?.
1 is going to join Son R.M. Joseph 156 5th St San Francisco.
2 Going to Join column says "brother of above." It is not clear whether this
means he is going to join the brother of R.M. Joseph or he is the brother
of Menessah Joseph.
5 has been to Cleveland 1894.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 2, Page 124.
Transcribed by Fran Taylor, a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild15 September 2000
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