Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS City of Puebla

I, G Debney, Master of the Steamship City of Puebla 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 _____ 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) G Debney
Sworn to this 15th day of Oct 1895, before me, (signature) HB Barthrop, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Steamship ____ whereof ____ is Master, from Port Townsend, burthen 1713 tons

OFFICE OF THE COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS
Port of Port Townsend, Wash

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Sir:--I certify that the S.S. City of Puebla sailed this Oct 15 1895 for San Francisco via Victoria B.C. with (1) Chinese passengers destined for San Francisco as per manifest above.
(signature) HB Barthrop Deputy Collector

Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 18 day of Oct 1895 (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  52501, Chin Lew, 39y, Mcht, Seattle, 5'8½", Dk, brown, small black mole front of left ear.


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.

There are two separate pages for this ship's arrival, for passengers from Victoria, B.C. and
 another for passengers from Port Townsend, Wash.

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 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 following column no entries:
  If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts

The cover sheet has two hand written notes:
 Oct 18 1895
 Land the within Chinese upon identification and production of Registration Certificate
   (signature) JJ Tobin, D Coll
 I have  on the above date landed the within named Chinese person holding a laborer 
  registration certificate numbered 52501 District of Oregon.
   (signature) WW Presbury, Chinese Inspector

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