Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS City of Sydney

I, Frank H Johnston, Master of the S.S. 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 & Way Ports 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) Frank H Johnston
Sworn to this 10* day of May 1897, before me, (signature) JB Tobin, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the S.S. City of Sydney whereof Frank H Johnston 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  Kwan      Po       50  Merchant Panama       Departed per Str Doric, Hong Kong, May 11, 1897
 2  Te        Hung     54  Merchant Panama       Departed per Str Doric, Hong Kong, May 11, 1898
 3  Ho        Hue      44  Merchant Panama       Departed per Str Doric, Hong Kong, May 11, 1899
 4  Jose      Schio    40  Merchant Punta Arenas Departed per Str China, Hong Kong
 5  Audira    Somechio 43  Merchant Punta Arenas Departed per Str China, Hong Kong
 6  Mrs       Somechio 24  wife     Punta Arenas Departed per Str China, Hong Kong
 7  infant    Somechio 10m none     Punta Arenas Departed per Str China, Hong Kong
 8  Juan      Foo      40  Merchant Punta Arenas Departed per Str China, Hong Kong
 9  Antonio   Foo       8  none     Punta Arenas Departed per Str China, Hong Kong
10  Jose      Foo       7  none     Punta Arenas Departed per Str China, Hong Kong
11  Rafael    Sin      37  Merchant Punta Arenas Departed per Str China, Hong Kong
12  Feliciano Tacsam   44  Merchant Punta Arenas Departed per Str China, Hong Kong
13  Juan  Chan Rey     40  Merchant Punta Arenas Departed per Str China, Hong Kong
14    ?     ?   ?


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.

Someone has written 9th above the date in the sworn statement.  May 9th is on the cover
 sheet.

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) 1892 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:
 No of Certificate
 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.

14  There are just the tops of the letters of this name.  The rest of the page has been 
    cut off.

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