Immigrant Ships
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SS Walla Walla

I, Thos Wallace, Master of the Steamship Walla Walla 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) Thos P Wallace
Sworn to this 28 day of May 1894, before me, EB Barnprop, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Steamship Walla Walla whereof Thos Wallace is Master, from Port Townsend, burthen 2168 tons

CUSTOM HOUSE, PORT TOWNSEND, WASHINGTON TERRITORY*

Collector's Office May 28, 1894 Statement of the number of Chinese passengers embarked per SS Walla Walla (from U.S. ports of this District,) For (from Victoria, B.C.,) San Francisco (in transit to China,) Cal Total One

Sailed from Victoria, B.C. May 28, 1894. I hereby certify the above to be correct and that the certificates of Victoria Chinamen have been compared by me with the Register on file at the Customs House at Port Townsend and are found to be correct. (signature) EB Barnprop, Deputy Collector of Customs

Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 31 day of May 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* Wong ?le Sing   30 yr   Laborer   Seattle   5'8"   Yellow   Dark   Scars on right and left temples


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 first two paragraphs above are printed as part of the form for this list.  The next 
 three paragraphs are two separate stamps placed on the body of the page and then completed.
 The sections of the third paragraph, CUSTOM HOUSE, etc, in parentheses were crossed out, 
 essentially leaving the statement that there was one passenger from Port Townsend for 
 San Francisco.

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 cover sheet for this list has a stamp and a hand written note:  
 Inspector Presbury, Surveyor: Land the within named Chinese person on identification 
  (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector 
 I certify that I have this day landed the within named Chinese passenger 
  (signature) WW Presbury, Chinese Inspector
 

The following columns had no entries:
 No of Certificate
 If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts=no entries

1  The first letter of the second name is G or Y.

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