Immigrant Ships
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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 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) G. Debney
Sworn to this 14th day of Dec 1895, before me, (signature)Chas Miller, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Steamship City of Puebla whereof G. Debney 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 thqt the Steamer City of Puebla sailed this Dec 14 1895 for San Frqancisco via Victoria, B.C., with Two (2) Chinese passengers destined for San Fransico, as per manifest attached
(signature) Chas Miller, Deputy Collector of Customs

Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 17 day of Dec 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 oficers of Chinese Government, state facts*.

1 81808 Pon Jeang 26 Laborer Port Townsend 5'4¾" scar over left ear scars over right ear
                                                   mole on bridge of nose
2*3516  Chin Sing 38 Laborer Port Townsend 5'6½" mole by left ear, deep scar over right eye
                                                   mustache 


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 
 paragraph and its heading is stamp placed on the page and then completed.  The following paragraph 
 is also a stamp placed on the body of the page and then completed.

The cover sheet for this list has two hand written notes.  
Upon proper identification of the parties they can be landed under Dept. order of Dec 20, 1888
 provided they have cerrtificates of registration on their person and certify they are merchants.
  [the rest is cut off]
Dec 17, 1895
 I have this day landed the within named Chinese persons, holding,in the order of their names,
  certificate numbers 87808 and 36156*.
  (signature) WW Presbury, Chinese Inspector

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

2 A 6? is written above the first 5 of the certificate number on the manifest, 35156.

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