Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Colima

I, John F Taylor, Master of the Steamer Colima 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 & Way Ports 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) John F Taylor
Sworn to this 14 day of March 1895, before me, (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Steamer Colima whereof John F Taylor is Master, from _______, burthen 2143.85 tons

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 officers of Chinese Government, state facts*.

             In Transit for Hong Kong

 1  Foo    Kway     36  Merchant  Panama   Departed per City of Peking, Hong Kong March 14, 1895   
 2  Ah     Lein     41  Merchant  Panama   Departed per City of Peking, Hong Kong March 14, 1896   
 3  Chang  Kway Gin 29  Merchant  Panama   Departed per City of Peking, Hong Kong March 14, 1895   
 4  Ah     Won      38  Merchant  Panama   Departed per City of Peking, Hong Kong March 14, 1895   
 5  Fue    Ham      44  Merchant  Panama   Departed per City of Peking, Hong Kong March 14, 1895   
 6  Cho    Mien     50  Merchant  Panama   Departed per City of Peking, Hong Kong March 14, 1895   
 7  See    Fat      42  Merchant  Panama   Departed per City of Peking, Hong Kong March 14, 1895   
 8  Lai    Fue      36  Merchant  Panama   Departed per City of Peking, Hong Kong March 14, 1895   
 9  Chong  Soy  Che 43  Merchant  Panama   Departed per City of Peking, Hong Kong March 14, 1895   
10  Ah     Sun      34  Merchant  Panama   Departed per City of Peking, Hong Kong March 14, 1895   

             For San Francisco

11  G      Sin      36  Merchant  San Jose de Guat Refused Departed per San Blas, Panama March 28, 1895

        Recapitulation
         For Hong Kong     10
         For San Francisco  1
                 Total     11  Eleven


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 indicatges 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 officers of Chinese Government, state facts

Occupation is universally recorded as Merchant or Grocer because following the Chinese 
 Exclusion Act of May 6, 1882 admission was denied to all Chinese except laborers already 
 in the US and "students, teachers, merchants or those proceeding to the United States from 
 curiosity."

According to the National Archives branch in San Bruno, California it is possible that they have
 some information on any Chinese passenger who arrived in San Francisco after 1886.

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