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SS City of Peking


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Yokohama, Japan to San Francisco, CA
Chinese passengers from Hong Kong
18 February 1896

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 Feby 4th, 1896 arriving at Port of San Francisco, Feb 18, 1896.
Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, Married or Single*, Occupation, Last Residence, Final Destination in the US, Whether in Possession of Money-if less than $30, how much?, Whether ever before in the US
 1  Mimai      Ishikawa 26y7m  Yes Student Hokkaido  New York 170   No
 2  Yoshitaro  Yamkada  38y2m  No  Student Tokio     San Fran $40   No
 3  Sakuya     Yasuda   22y11m No  Student Hokkaido  San Fran $50   No
 4  Ruyiro     Sugimoto 24y10m No  Student Niigata   San Fran $120  No
 5* Jiro       Ito      29y9m  No  Dentist Tokyo     San Fran 40    yes 
 6  Kunzo      Masumoto 20y0m  No  Student Yamaguchi San Fran 30    No
 7  Kichisuke  Tanaka   20y8m  No  Student Yamaguchi San Fran 33    No
 8  Tsunetaro  Oya      26y0m  No  Student Nagano    San Fran 60    No
 9  Hidenosuke Yoshiike 32y8m  No  Student Nagano    San Fran 60    No
10* K          Tsuzuki  31y1m  No  Student Tokio     San Fran 50    yes
11  Tsunetaro  Miyozaki 17y5m  No  Student Fukumoto  San Fran 50    No
12  Tsunegoro  Keumotsu 22y7m  No  Student Kanagawa  San Fran 31.50 No
13  Mikizo     Haijima  37y6m  No  Student Kanagawa  San Fran 31.50 No
14  Minosuke   Keumotsu 39y6m  No  Student Kanagawa  San Fran 31.50 No
15  Hamataro   Hayashi  22y6m  No  Student Kanagawa  San Fran 60    No


Transcriber's Notes:

There is no captain's statement nor captain's name attached to this manifest.

In the married or Single column "or Single" has been crossed out.

The following columns had identical entries for all passengers and so were 
not included in the table:
 Sex=Male
 Able to Read & Write=yes
 Nationality=Japanese
 Seaport for Landing in the US=San Francisco
 Whether having a ticket to final destination=Yes
 By whom was passage paid?=Self
 Whether going to join Relative or Friend=No
 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

Letters that are illegible or difficult to interpret are replaced by ?.

Passenger Notes:
 5  has been to San Francisco once 1894.
10  has been to San Francisco once 1892.
Page 2 Chinese Passengers
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 3, Page 200.
Transcribed by Fran Taylor, a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
2 September 2001



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