Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS City of Rio de Janeiro

I, Wm Ward, 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 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) Wm Ward
Sworn to this 9* day of November 1896, before me, (signature) NS Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the City of Rio de Janeiro whereof Wm Ward is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 2275.45 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*, If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts.

 1   1  9-Nov-94  Quan  Sing         25 San Fran     Landed 11-Nov Native of US
 2   2  15-Oct-95 Laun  Kim          33 San Fran     Landed 11-Nov Affidavit Merchant
 3   3  21-Nov-95 Cho   Wan          34 San Fran     Landed 11-Nov Return laborer
 4   7  3-Dec-94  Lui   Aw     Tun   34 San Fran     Landed 11-Nov Affidavit Merchant
 5   9  10-Dec-95 Ju    Hay          34 Los Angeles  Landed 11-Nov Return laborer
 6  10  13-Sep-95 Chew  King         34 San Fran     Landed 11-Nov Affidavit Merchant
 7  12  12-Sep-95 Woo   Eight        40 Flagstaff    Landed 11-Nov Affidavit Merchant
 8  15  12-Apr-95    Cancelled                                           
 9  16  5-Apr-95  Sito  Tung   Gong  32 Los Angeles  Landed 11-Nov Student
10  17  23-Apr-95 Lito  Oi           36 Los Angeles  Landed 11-Nov Missionary
11  19  17-Dec-94 Wong  On           53 Los Angeles  Landed 11-Nov Affidavit Merchant
12  20  30-Apr-95 Ng    Jung   Hong  34 San Fran     Landed 17-Nov Affidavit Merchant
13* 21  21-Nov-95 Wong  Nam          37 Weaverville  Landed 11-Nov Return laborer
14* 23  17-Oct-95 Toy   Yet          38 Rio Vista    Landed 14-Nov Affidavit Merchant
15  24  5-Dec-94  Ng    Sing         31 San Fran     Landed 11-Nov Affidavit Merchant
16* 25  12-Apr-89 ?am   Tuck   Chew  46 San Fran     Landed 11-Nov Affidavit Merchant
17  28  3-Oct-96  Wan   Wing   Yan   31      Denied              
18* 29  29-Jun-95 Lee   Gin    Quong 38 Clifton Ariz Landed 11-Nov ?
19* 30  6-Sep-95  Jue   Ye     Jan   30 Sacramento   Landed 11-Nov ?
20  31  28-Sep-94 Dang  Lok          35 Watsonville  Landed 14-Nov Affidavit Merchant
21  32  8-Aug-95  Ng    Juin   Gooy  31 Santa Anna   Landed 14-Nov Affidavit Merchant
    588     See Below                                            
22  ?             Dan   Lum          23 San Fran     Landed 11-Nov Affidavit Merchant
23  18  21-Dec-95 Young Why          52 New York     Landed 11-Nov Return laborer
24  22  10-Oct-95 Mack  Lung         35 Chicago      Landed 11-Nov Affidavit Merchant
25  4             Wang  Wah    Yip   39 Havana       Landed "I.T." Transit List 5947 Dep per S.P.R.R., Havana, Nov 18-'96
26  5             Cheung Sik         26 Havana       Landed "I.T." Transit List 5948 Dep per S.P.R.R., Havana, Nov 18-'97
27  6             Mao   Sing   Kew   38 Havana       Landed "I.T." Transit List 5949 Dep per S.P.R.R., Havana, Nov 18-'98
28  11               Cancelled                                           
29  8             Woo   Wai    Kim   32 Mexico City  Landed "I.T." Transit List 5942 Dep per S.P.R.R., Mexico, Nov 18-'98
30  13            Woo   Pun          26 Mexico City  Landed "I.T." Transit List 5943 Dep per S.P.R.R., Mexico, Nov 18-'99
31  14            Woo   Sing         51 Mexico City  Landed "I.T." Transit List 5944 Dep per S.P.R.R., Mexico, Nov 18-'100
32  36            Yin   Yoi    Wo    39 Mexico City  Landed "I.T." Transit List 5945 Dep per S.P.R.R., Mexico, Nov 18-'101
33  27            Yue   Mee          27 Mexico City  Landed "I.T." Transit List 5946 Dep per S.P.R.R., Mexico, Nov 18-'102
34* 588 28-Sep-96 Lie   Tui    Pan   40 San Fran     Landed 11-Nov Affidavit Merchant

Recapitulation  Males  Total
 San Francisco   23     23
 Overland Cities  1      1
 Havana           3      3
 city of Mexico   5      5
       Total     32     32


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.

Although the Sworn Statement is dated Nov 9, Nov 7 is written in above it.  The cover sheet
 says Nov 6.  

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) 1896 by  Insp's (blank 
 for a name, in this case O'Leary). 
 
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 for all but passenger 32, whose occupation is Merchant.

The total in the Recapitulation differs from the number of passengers transcribed because
 the two passengers who cancelled have been included in the transcribed number.

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.

13 Weaverville is described as in Cal.
14 Rio Vista is described as in Solano Co Cal.
16 Second name has a circular beginning that could be an A, making it Alam but more
    likely is the flourish at the bottom of an L, Lam.
18 The last column is very faint but could be Return Laborer.
19 The last column is very faint but could be Affidavit Merchant.
32 At the end of the row it says "European Steerage."
 

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