Immigrant Ships
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SS San Blas

I, W H McLean, Master of the S.S. San Blas 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 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) W H McLean
Sworn to this 19 day of Nov 1894, before me, (signature) NS Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the San Blas whereof W H McLean is Master, from Panama, burthen 1496.5 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*.

1* Antonio Diaz, 40 yr, Merchant, Iquique, 5'4", Dk, Dk, none


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.  These numbers are 
 included in the identification of the film and reel numbers below.

The departure port is listed as simply Panama.  Research indicates 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) 1893 by  Insp's (blank 
 for a name, in this case Grant). Many of these passengers have a place name written over 
 the stamp. Where a blank is transcribed in this column no place has been written in.  Where 
 there is a question mark the entry is illegible.
 
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
 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."

1 passenger is described as "in transit for Hong Kong" and "departed per steamer Peru
  Hong Kong Nov 24, 1894."   Iquique is a port in northern Chile.

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