Immigrant Ships
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SS City of Peking

I, RR Searle, Master of the City of Peking 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 and Yokohama 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) RR Searle
Sworn to this 21 day of Dec 1891, 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 Peking whereof RR Searle is Master, from Hong Kong and Yokohama, burthen 3128.99 tons

Columns represent: Number, No of Certificate, Name, Age, Occupation*, Last Place of Residence*, Bonf No, Height*, Complexion*, Color of Eyes*, Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification*, If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts.

 1  1  Fong  Hue        25 Landed 7-Jan  294 Affdt Mcht
 2  2  Tai   Hing Tong  31 Landed 7-Jan  304 Affdt Mcht
 3  3  Chew  Sing       29 Landed 5-Jan  289 Affdt Mcht
 4  4  Chew  King Quan  43 Landed 5-Jan  288 Affdt Mcht
 5  5  Chew  Noe        31 Landed 11-Jan 311 Affdt Mcht
 6  6  Lew   Ling       33 Landed 7-Jan  301 Affdt Mcht
 7  7  Lep   Tai  Chuck 27 Landed 7-Jan  298 Affdt Mcht
 8  8  Lee   Ching      30 Landed 7-Jan  305 Affdt Mcht
 9  9  Koo   Kam        25 Landed 12-Jan 313 Affdt Mcht
10  10 Law   Wai  Lui   41 Landed 9-Jan  312 Affdt Mcht
11  11 Lee   Loy  Lung  32 Landed 5-Jan  290 Affdt Mcht
12  12 Wong  Chout      26 Landed 7-Jan  295 Affdt Mcht
13  13 Leong Kong Choy  38 Landed 7-Jan  296 Affdt Mcht
14  14 Lin   Fat        38 Landed 7-Jan  302 Affdt Mcht
15* 15 Yip   Aug        21 Landed 7-Jan  303 wife of merchant
16* 16 Yip   Key        13 Landed 13-Jan     Native of US
17* 17 Tom   Low  Chae  20 Landed 13-Jan     Native of US
18  18 Chun  Kang       45 Landed 7-Jan  300 Affdt Mcht
19* 19 Leong Sui        31 Landed 7-Jan  299 wife of merchant
20* 20 Chun  Yuen Hay    2 Landed 7-Jan      child
21  22 Sun   Quai       32 Landed 7-Jan  307 Affdt Mcht
22  23 Lie   Fung       28 Landed 7-Jan  207 Affdt Mcht
23     Chun  Tai  Chew   - Landed 22-Dec     Director Sam Yap Club


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 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) 1891 by Insp's (blank 
 for a name, in this case Grant). 
 
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)

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

Occupation is Grocer except as noted below.  Last Residance is China for all.

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.

15    Occupation is "with her husband."
16    Occupation is with her father.
17    Occupation is "to join her husband."
15-17 have "Fem" in the margin.
19    Occupation is "with her husband."
20    Occupation is "with her mother."
19-20 Are joined by a bracket and the words "mother and child."
20    Last column says "child in arms with wife of merchant." 

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