Immigrant Ships
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SS Walla Walla

I, Thos Wallace, Master of the Steamship Walla Walla 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) _______
Sworn to this 18 day of Mar 1896, before me, (signature) Chas Miller, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Steamship _______ whereof Thos Wallace is Master, from _____, burthen _____ 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. Walla Walla sailed this ______ for San Francisco via Victoria B.C. with Two Chinese passengers, destined for San Francisco, as per manifest attached
(signature) Chas Miller Deputy Collector

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* 43695  Lew S?  Chun  44  Farm hand  Auburn, Wash   5'?
2  45068  Ah  Sing      25  Farmer     Coupeville     5'?


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.  Question marks
  indicate missing or illegible information.

The only information on the date of arrival of this ship is in the partial note on the cover 
 page that says one passenger was landed on Mar 21.  It is reasonable that this was the 
 arrival date because the departure date was Mar 18 and usual transit time was three days.

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.

The first two paragraphs above are printed as part of the form for this list.  The next 
 paragraph and its heading is a piece of paper attached to the page.  The entire right half 
 of the page of this list is missing.  The boilerplate of the Captain's statement and 
 other parts of the printed form are copied from other ships on the film.  Missing 
 informatiion about the passengers begins in the middle of the height column.

The cover sheet for this list has two hand written notes.  
 [beginning cut off film]
  of registration certificate.
  (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector
 March 23-'96
 In compliance with the above order I have landed the within named Chinese as follows
  viz Lew S? (Su or See) Chun on Mar 21, Ah Sing on Mar 23 
  (signature) John Lynch, Chinese Inspector 

The following columns are missing:
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification
 If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts=no entries

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.

1  Second name is Su or See.

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