Immigrant Ships
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SS Peru

I, D.E. Friele, Master of the Peru 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 Hong Kong 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) D.E. Friele
Sworn to this 20 day of Mar 1896, before me, (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Peru whereof D.E. Friele is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 2540 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.

              For San Francisco

 1  525 Ho   Git  Soy  38 Landed 21-Mar  Affadavit Merchant
 2* 534 Chin Ow        22 Landed 13-Apr  Native of US
 3* 535 Tam  Yue  Yee  17 Landed 6-Apr   Native of US
 4* 536 Sam  Yuk  Lai  17 Landed 13-Apr  Native of US
 5* 537 Yung Kum  Ho   19 Landed 13-Apr  Native of US
 6* 538 Yung Tung Kok  18 Landed 13-Apr  Native of US
								
              For Havana by Str

 7  526 Ho   Fat       33 Departed per SS City of Sydney, Panama, March 25, 1896         
 8  527 Ho   Chen      26 Departed per SS City of Sydney, Panama, March 25, 1896         
 9  528 Ho   Hee       36 Departed per SS City of Sydney, Panama, March 25, 1896         
10  529 Ho   Tack      20 Departed per SS City of Sydney, Panama, March 25, 1896         
11  530 Ho   Young     37 Departed per SS City of Sydney, Panama, March 25, 1896         
12  531 Ho   Luen      23 Departed per SS City of Sydney, Panama, March 25, 1896         
13* 532 Ho   Mow  Li?  22 Departed per SS City of Sydney, Panama, March 25, 1896         
14  533 Ho   Mow  Yung 30 Departed per SS City of Sydney, Panama, March 25, 1896 

              For Havana by Railroad

15* 539 Lo?  Hip      39 Landed  "I.T." Transit List 5136
16* 540 Lo?  Chow     23 Landed  "I.T." Transit List 5137
17* 541 Lo?  Yui      23 Landed  "I.T." Transit List 5138
18* 542 Lo?  Yan      35 Landed  "I.T." Transit List 5139
19* 543 Lo?  May      20 Landed  "I.T." Transit List 5140
20* 544 Lee  Hoo      32 Landed  "I.T." Transit List 5141

Recapitulation  Male  Female
  San Francisco   1      5
  Havana by Str   8
  Havana by Rail  6
       Total     15      5


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 information in the transcriber notes.

Question marks replace illegible information or letters.

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.

For passengers bound for San Francisco, passengers' names and ages are followed by a stamp 
 that varies depending on the disposition of the passenger. 
Passengers allowed to land have the following stamp:
 Landed Collectors order (blank with a month and day date written in) 1896 by  Insp's (blank 
 for a name, in this case O'Leary). 
 
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.  The National Archives 
  should have a file for these passengers describing what happened to them.
 Landing Refused Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date).

For passengers bound for a further port there are two possible dispositions:
  Landed "I.T." Transit List followed by a number
  Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date)

The following columns had no entries and are not included in the table:
 Last Place of Residence
 Height
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification

On the No of Certificate colum heading Certificate is crossed out, replaced by Ticket.

Occupation is Grocer for all passengers except as noted below.

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.

2-6   Occupation is woman and there is a notation Fem.
3     There is a footnote "Figures on photograph 536."
13    Third name is Liu or Lin.
15-19 The first name for these passengers is probably Log or Loq.  The letter lacks
       a high stroke above the circle that this writer used for p and seems clearly
       closed, unlike a y.
15-20 Departed per SPRR March 21, 1896.  This is probably Southern Pacific Railraod. 

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