Immigrant Ships
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SS City of Puebla

I, G Debney, Master of the Steamship _______ 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 Victoria, B.C. from which port said vessel has now arrived, 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 18th day of Oct 1895, before me, _______, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Steamship ______ whereof _______ is Master, from Victoria BC burthen 1713 tons

Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 18 day of Oct 1895 (signature)_______, 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* ?ee Ben Shing, 29, Merchant, Victoria, 5'1½", Dark, Dark, scar on chin and scar left 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.

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 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.

There is a handwritten note on the page:
  Mr. Presbury
  ? these two men one from domestic ports please land them. provided they 
   have the proper papers and the man on this manifest has papers ?  ?  ?
   (signature) BH

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

1 The first letter of the first name could best be described as S written over Y.
   However, the shape of the S is different from the S in the third name.
   Landed Collector's order Oct 19, 1895 by Insp's F. Underwood  Affadavit Merchant

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