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 31st day of Aug 1895, before me, (signature) S.B. Hause, 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

This certifies that Str City of Puebla sailed this noon for San Francisco by way of Victoria, B.C. with one Chinese Passenger.
(signature) Chas Miller Deputy Collector

Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 3 day of Sep 1895 (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*, ??386, ?on Wing, 29y, Merchant, Seattle, 5'8¼", Light, brown, black moles on 
    right side of neck


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 first two paragraphs above are printed as part of the form for this list.  The next 
 paragraph is a handwritten note on the page.  The following paragraph is a separate 
 stamp placed on the body of the page and then completed.

The cover sheet for this list has two hand written notes.  
 Sep 3 1895, Land the within named Chinese person on identification and production
  of Registration Certificate
  (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector 
 I have,on the above date landed the within named Chinese person holding registration 
  certificate of "person other than laborer" 47386, District of Oregon
  (signature) WW Presbury, Chinese Inspector 

The following column had no entry:
 If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts

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.

1  First name is Ton or Yon.  The Certificate number is illegible on the list but appears in
   the cover sheet note transcribed above.

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