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 27 day of June 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 Jun 27 1894 Statement of the number of Chinese passengers embarked per SS Walla Walla from U.S. ports of this District Puget Sound, (from Victoria, B.C., ______ in transit to China_________,)* Total five (5)

Sailed from Victoria, B.C. June 27, 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 30 day of June 1894 (signature) NS Farley, 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  Mark Gen   34  laborer  Seattle        5'8"   Pock marks on face
2  Bark Yang  20  laborer  Port Townsend  5'2"   Pock mark right side of face
3* Mark Yee   34  laborer  Seattle        5'8"   Pock mark on face 
4  Ah   Gee   30  laborer  Port Townsend  5'5¼"  Two scars on right side of face
5  Yee  You   30  laborer  Port Townsend  5'2"   Two scars above left ear
6  Yee  Ma    25  Cook     Port Townsend  5'3"   Scar on 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 first two paragraphs above are printed as part of the form for this list.  The next two
 paragraphs are stamps added to the page and then completed.  The  first stamp is 
 crossed out in the part indicated by parentheses above, and replaced by:
 "for San Francisco Cal via Victoria B.C. 

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

The cover sheet for this list has two handwritten notes.  
 Allow landing under Dept telegram on Dec 21, 1889
  (signature) EB Jimne, Deputy Collector 
 I certify that I have this day landed the within named Chinese passenger 
  (signature) WW Presbury, Chinese Inspector June 30, 1894
 

The following columns had identical entries for all passengers and so were not included in 
the table:
 No of Certificate=no entries 
 Complexion=Yellow
 Color of Eyes=Dark 
 If accredited oficers of Chinese Government, state facts=no entries

3 This entry appears to have been crossed out.

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