Immigrant Ships
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SS Umatilla

I, E.W. Holmes, Master of the Steamship Umatilla 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 Port Townsend from which port said vessel has now arrived, and they have not landed at any foreign port or place during the voyage, 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) EW Holmes
Sworn to this 23rd day of July 1893, before me, SB House, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Steamship Umatilla whereof EW Holmes is Master, from Port Townsend, burthen 2168 tons

CUSTOM HOUSE, PORT TOWNSEND, WASHINGTON TERRITORY

Collector's Office July 23, 1893 Statement of the number of Chinese passengers embarked per SS Umatilla from U.S. ports of this District 1, from Victoria, B.C., ______ in transit to China 1, Total 2

I hereby certify the above to be correct and that the certificates of Victoria Chinamen have been compared by me with the Register on file at the Customs House at Port Townsend and are found to be correct. (signature) SB House, Deputy Collector of Customs

Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 26 day of July 1893 (signature) John M Dare, Deputy Collector of Customs

Columns represent: Number, No of Certificate*, Name, Age, Occupation, Last Place of Residence, Height, Complexion*, Color of Eyes*, Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification, If accredited oficers of Chinese Government, state facts*.

1  Ham     Lee	     30	 Merchant   Bradford Pa   5' 4"    Sm scar back of neck
2* Ah      Sing	     40	 Gardener   Seattle       5' 6½"   Scar left temple
3* Mrs Lee Fook	Bow  40	 Departed for Hong Kong per SS Oceania August 93


Transcriber's Notes:

The first two paragraphs above are printed as part of the form for this list.  The remaining
 paragraphs are two separate stamps placed on the body of the page and then completed.

The pages on this film are not numbered so finding a particular ship can be difficult.  
 However, there appears to be a system of numbering the manifests.  These numbers are
 included in the identification of the film and reel numbers below.

The cover sheet for this list has a hand written note and two stamps.  The note is:
Respectfully referred to Collector for a ruling as to the rights of the within named Chinese 
 persons to land (signature) S.J. Ruddell, Dep Surveyor
 Land Ham Lee under Dept ruling of Nov 2, 1888, (signature) B.J. Jimne Dep Coll.

The stamps are:
 I certify that I have landed the within named chinese(sic) persons (signature) DJ O'Leary
 July 26, 1893
 Inspector O'Leary on identification by _____ (uncompleted blank) land the within named
  chinese(sic) persons in accordance with foregoing order (signature) SJ Ruddell July 26

The following columns had identical entries for all passengers and so were not included in 
the table:
 No of Certificate=no entries 
 Complexion=Yellow
 Color of Eyes=Dark
 If accredited oficers of Chinese Government, state facts=no entries 

Passenger Notes:

2  This entire line is crossed out.  Since the passenger is not listed as able to land,
    and there are only two passengers listed as departing, he probably was not on board.
3  There are 2 notes regarding this passenger.  "The woman Mrs Lee Fook alias Chinaman Young
    was refused admission and is put on board the Umatilla to be returned to China." SB House
    "Put on board SS Umatilla by Collector to be returned to China." SB House Dept Collector
 

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