Immigrant Ships
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SS Walla Walla

I, Thos Wallace, Master of the Steamship Walla Walla 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 Victoria, B.C. from which port said vessel has now arrived, 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) Thos Wallace
Sworn to this 12th day of Nov 1894, before me, (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Steamship Walla Walla whereof Thos Wallace is Master, from Victoria, B.C. burthen 2168 tons

CUSTOM HOUSE PORT TOWNSEND, WASHINGTON TERRITORY
COLLECTORS OFFICE, _____,1894
Statement of the number of passengers embarked per Walla Walla from U.S. Ports of this District _____
From Victoria B.C._____ in transit to China ____ Total __
Sailed from Victoria, B.C. Nov 9, 1894
I hereby certify the above to be correct, and that the certificates of Victoria Chinamen have been compared by me with the register on file at the Custom House at Port Townsend, and are found to be correct. (signature) _______

Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 12 day of Nov 1894 (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector of Customs

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* Wong Sam  37  Merchan                 Landed 15-Nov Insp Cook Merchant
2* Ah   Moy  25  wife of Merchant        Landed 13-Nov Insp Cook


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 first two paragraphs above are printed as part of the form for this list.  The next 
 paragraph and its heading is a piece of paper attached to the page.  The following paragraph 
 is a separate stamp placed on the body of the page and then completed.  

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 following columns had identical entries for all passengers and so were not included in 
the table:
 No of Certificate=no entries
 Complexion=Yellow
 Color of Eyes=Dark 
 
Last Residence, Height, and Physical Marks are obscured by the Landed stamp. Last residence
 could be Walla Walla.

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  Physical Marks says ???? bridge of nose.
2  Physical Marks says ???? neck.

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