Immigrant Ships
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SS City of Peking

I, R.R. 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 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) Robt. R. Searle
Sworn to this 7 day of Mar 1892, 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 R.R. Searle is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 3128.99 tons

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*, Bond No, If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts.

1* 326 Yong Ping       29  Refused Habeas Corpus USDC Case 11575           
2  325 Jong Show       28  Landed    ?    427 affdt mcht
3  327 Chin Bing Yuen  30  Landed  7-Mar  425 affdt mcht
4* 324 Luk  Sue        22  Refused Habeas Corpus USDC Case 11578           
5* 328 Wong Kum  Kak   23  Refused Habeas Corpus USDC Case 11577           
6* 330 Chew Fong       36  Landed  7-Mar  424 wife of mcht
7* 331 Chun Kwai       23  Landed  8-Mar  426 wife of mcht


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) 1892 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 held in quarantine at Angel island.  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

No of Certificate has been changed to No of Ticket.

Occupation and Last Residence information is obscured by the stamps. Legible
 information is in notes below.

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  Occupation is Grocer, Last Residence is Ch????.
4  Occupation is "to join her husband."
6,7  have notes "$400."
4-7  are female.
 

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