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 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.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 3, Page 200.
Transcribed by Fran Taylor, a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild2 September 2001
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