Immigrant Ships
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Barkentine Tropic Bird

I, HB Burns, Master of the Am Bkt Tropic Bird 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 Papeete Tahiti 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) HB Burns, Master
Sworn to this 18 day of June 1894, before me, (signature) NS Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Am Bkt Tropic Bird whereof HB Burns is Master, from Papeete Tahiti, burthen 330.56 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* Asen   31y3m   Merchant   Tahiti   5'4"   Dark   Dark


Transcriber's Notes:

* An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder not the transcriber, 
  or is used to call attention to additional inforamtion 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.

Passengers bound for a further port have two possible dispositions:
  Landed "I.T." Transit List followed by a number
  Departed Per Steamer ___ (name of ship) ___ (date).  This passenger has both entries.
  There is a stamp Landed "I.T." Transit List 3753 and a hand written note "Departed per
  SS Belgic June 28, 1894.  There is no comment concerning the passenger's final destination
  but the Belgic appears on the microfilm as arriving from Hong Kong, ports in Japan and 
  occasionally Honolulu.

The following columns had no entries and are not included:
 No of Certificate
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification
 If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts


1  There is a stamp "Landed "I.T." Transit List ?753.  Considering all the other lists
   on the film, this number is probably 3753.  The passenger departed per SS Belgic
   June 18, 1894.  His destination is either not mentioned or off the edge of the film.
   The Belgic regularly arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong and Japanese ports.
 

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