Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS City of Sydney

I, D.E. Friele, Master of the City of Sydney 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 Panama & Mazatlan 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) D.E. Friele
Sworn to this 30 day of Nov 1891, before me, (signature) M Webber, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the City of Sydney whereof D.E. Friele is Master, from Panama, burthen 1965.83 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  Lay  Sin Lang  Merchant  Panama    In Transit for Hong Kong
 2  Lay  Se        Merchant  Panama    In Transit for Hong Kong
 3  Ah   Cohn      Laborer   Panama    In Transit for Hong Kong
 4  Ah   Foo       Laborer   Panama    In Transit for Hong Kong
 5  Ah   Gi        Laborer   Panama    In Transit for Hong Kong
 6  Ah   Saw       Laborer   Panama    In Transit for Hong Kong
 7  Ah   Lo        Laborer   Panama    In Transit for Hong Kong
 8  Ho   Sam       Laborer   Panama    In Transit for Hong Kong
 9  Chan Joy Man   Laborer   Panama    In Transit for Hong Kong
10  Lin  Chou      Laborer   Panama    In Transit for Hong Kong
11  Fong Mow       Laborer   Mazatlan  In Transit for Hong Kong
12  Fing Bo        Laborer   Mazatlan  In Transit for Hong Kong
13  Ah   Kee       Laborer   Mazatlan  In Transit for Hong Kong
14  Ah   Lee       Laborer   Mazatlan  In Transit for Hong Kong

             3 Landed I.T. Transit Cert
            11 Transferred to SS China dept Dec ?


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.

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 departure port is listed as simply "Panama."  Research indicates this refers to Panama City.

For passengers bound for San Francisco, passengers' names and ages are followed by a stamp 
 that varies depending on the disposition of the passenger and which is stamped over whatever 
 information has been entered in the columns. 
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). 
 
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.
 Landing Refused Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date).

For passengers bound for a further destination there are two possible dispositions:
  Landed "I.T." Transit List followed by a number  These passengers expected to continue travel 
   by some other means to their destinations.
  Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date)

The following columns had no entries and are not included in the table:
 No of Certificate
 Age
 Height
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification 
 If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts

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.

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