Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS City of Puebla

I, G Debney, Master of the Steamship City of Puebla 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) G Debney
Sworn to this 20th day of Sept 1894, before me, Chas Miller, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Steamship City of Puebla whereof
G Debney is Master, from Port Townsend, burthen 1713 tons

Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 24 day of Sept 1894 (signature) JJ Tobin, 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 officers of Chinese Government, state facts*.

1* ?027  Chin Lung  25 Merchant Seattle       5'    scar near left corner left eye
2* ?331  Chew Bun   45 Merchant Seattle       5'    scar left side head, scar right side head, 
                                                     mole on right cheek
3* 2819  Tam  Seung 38 Laborer  Port Townsend 5'2¾" mole on right eyelid, scar middle of forehead, 
                                                     scar over right ear
4* 52202 Lee  Ching 26 Laborer  Port Townsend 5'5¾  two moles near left ear


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 appears to be a system of numbering the manifests.  In this portion of
 the film the numbers are not in exact order.  This manifest has no number, but is on the 
 same page as 9441-2.

The first two paragraphs above are printed as part of the form for this list.  The next 
 paragraph is a stamp placed on the body of the page and then completed.  Most ships from
 Port Townsend have a stamp or note from the Deputy Collector at Port Townsend listing or
 numbering the number of Chinese passengers.  It is missing here. 

The cover sheet for this list has a stamp and a hand written note.  
 Surveyor: Land the within named Chinese person on identification 
  (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector 
 I certify that I have this 24th day of September, 1894 landed the within named Chinese passengers. 
  (signature) WW Presbury, Chinese Inspector
 
The following columns had identical entries for all passengers and so were not included in 
the table:
 Complexion=Dk
 Color of Eyes=Brown 
 If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts=no entries

1-4 The Certificate numbers are on the edge of the page and may be missing initial numbers;
     most certificate numbers seem to be 5 or 6 digits long.

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