Immigrant Ships
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SS City of Rio de Janeiro

I, J. Tremaine Smith, Master of the City of Rio de Janeiro 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) J.T. Smith
Sworn to this 9th* day Jany of 1893, before me, (signature) John M Dare, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the City of Rio de Janeiro whereof J. Tremaine Smith is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 2275.45* tons

Columns represent: Number, No of Ticket*, 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  1  Aug 20/92 Lew   Wing  Chun 41 Landed 13-Jan Affdt Mcht
 2* 2  Jul 30/90 Tang  Yip   Chow 41 Landed 12-Jan Affdt Mcht
 3  3  Nov 17/89 Lee   Yuen  Fun  33 Landed 13-Jan Affdt Mcht
 4* 4  May 19/89 Wong  Hoi   Lee  49 Landed 10-Jan Affdt Mcht
 5  6  Nov 17/89 Yan   Woo        27 Landed 9-Jan  Affdt Mcht
 6  7  May 7/89  Chang Kum        27 Landed 13-Jan Affdt Mcht
 7* 12 Nov 1/89  Look  See        22 Refused  Habeas Corpus USDC Case 10518      
 8  13 Oct 29/91 Lee   Han   Luen 41 Landed 9-Jan  Affdt Mcht
 9  28 Dec 4/90  Choy  Yee        46 Refused  Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Jan 14, 1893   
10  29 803       Chung Quan  Gait 40 Landed 9-Jan  Affdt Mcht
11  30 Sep 29/90 Moy   Chung Gang 28 Landed 9-Jan  Affdt Mcht
12  31 Sep 26/90 Moy   Lin   Hing 39 Landed 9-Jan  Affdt Mcht
13  32 Sep 29/90 Moy   Wing  Tang 31 Landed 9-Jan  Affdt Mcht
14  33 May 6/91  Moy   Wing  Ng   33 Landed 9-Jan  Affdt Mcht
15* 40 Jul 20/92 Wong  Cheong     23 Landed ?      Affdt Mcht
16* 43 Dec 16/90 Moy   Wah   Foon 33 Landed 12-Jan Affdt Mcht
17* 44 Sep 25/90 Chow  Kai        20 Refused  Habeas Corpus USDC Case 10517

              Panama             

18  5            Chan  Chow       37 Departed per SS San Blas Jan 16, 1893, Panama       
19* 11           Yong  Kew        35 Departed per SS San Blas Jan 16, 1893, Panama       
20  39           Leong Hong       56 Departed per SS San Blas Jan 16, 1893, Panama
        
              Havana  

21  8            Yue   Sin        29 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1765
22  9            Chung Fook       33 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1766
23  10           Yue   Lung       22 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1767
24  14           Yue   Chai       35 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1768
25  15           Yue   Chee       30 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1769
26  16           Yue   Sing       29 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1770
27  17           Yue   Lung       27 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1771
28  18           Yue   Kwong      27 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1772
29  19           Yue   Lin        24 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1773
30  20           Yue   Koon       23 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1774
31  21           Yue   Qwan       21 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1775
32  22           Yue   Min        23 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1776
33  23           Yue   Kar        26 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1777
34  24           Yue   Pue        21 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1778
35  25           Lee   Pack       29 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1779
36  26           Lee   Cheong     50 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1780
37  27           Wang  Nam        28 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1781
38  34           Chun  Ying       32 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1782
39  35           Chun  Kut        31 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1783
40  36           Ow    Choy       24 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1784
41  37           Ming  Tun        32 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1785
42  38           Chun  Sik        30 Landed I.T. Transit Cert 1786
43  41           Wong  Fook       45 Landed ?
44  42           Chung Sow        25 Landed ?

Recapitulation     Males  Females  Total
 For San Francisco  15       2       17
 For Panama          2       1        3
 For Havana         24               24
           Total    41       3       44                                                         


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 figures after the decimal point in the blank for burthen are illegible on this list.
 the .45 comes from several other lists for this ship, both before and after this sailing.

The date Mr. Dare entered for his sworn statement is the 9th.  Someone has written 8th
 above it.  The date on the cover sheet is Jan 8.

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) 1892 by  Insp's (blank 
 for a name, in this case Richards, except where noted). 
 
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)

No of Ticket is scrawled above the second column shown here.

Occupation is Grocer for all passengers except as noted below.

Last Residence is China for all passengers.

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

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.

 2,4,16 Landing Inspector is Grant.
 7  Occupation is "to join her husband."
15  A Landed and a USDC Habeas Corpus Case stamp are both faintly visible on this line.
    The number of the Habeas Corpus Case is only partly legible 105??.
17  Occupation is "to join her husband."
19  Occupation is "to join her husband." 

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