Immigrant Ships
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SS Doric

I, Harry Smith, Master of the Doric 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 anf 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) Harry Smith
Sworn to this 2 day of Mar* 1898, before me, (signature) NS Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Doric whereof Harry Smith is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 5936 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   Tung  Nin        20 Merchant Hong Kong       Landed 24-Mar Native of US
 2  2   Suy   Pun        25 Merchant Hong Kong       Landed 19-Mar Sec 6 Certificate
 3  3   King  Sung       24 Student  Hong Kong       Landed 19-Mar Sec 6 Certificate
 4  4   Kwan  Sui        35 Clerk    Hong Kong       Landed 19-Mar Sec 6 Certificate
 5  5   Tam   Sin  Quan  25 Clerk    Hong Kong       Landed 19-Mar Sec 6 Certificate
 6  6   Min   Yam        28 Clerk    Hong Kong       Landed 28-Mar Native of US
 7  7   Hung  Kum        39 Merchant San Francisco   Landed 17-Mar Affidavit Merchant
 8  9   Sam   Ming Chan  29 Merchant Hong Kong       Landed 19-Mar Sec 6 Certificate
 9  10  Wing  Sow        20 ?        ?               Landed 17-Mar Return laborer
10  11  Chin  Kuen       22 Merchant New York        Landed 17-Mar Affidavit Merchant
11  12  Soo   Yin        30 ?        Hong Kong       Landed 19-Mar Sec 6 Certificate
12  13  Toong Tun        40 ?        Denver          Landed 17-Mar Return laborer
13  14  Tam   Ping Hun   25 Merchant Hong Kong       Landed 21-Mar Native of US
14  15  Tang  Pu?  ??    22 Merchant Hong Kong       Landed 17-Mar Native of US
15  16  Kuan  ??         29 Merchant Hong Kong       Landed 19-Mar Sec 6 Certificate
16  17  Kuan  N??        28 Merchant Hong Kong       Landed 19-Mar Sec 6 Certificate
17  18  Sui   Chuen H??  30 Teacher  Hong Kong       Landed 19-Mar Sec 6 Certificate
18  22  Yue   Wing King  15 Student  Hong Kong       Landed 19-Mar Sec 6 Certificate
19  23  Yon   On   Man   28 Merchant San Francisco   Landed 17-Mar Native of US
20  24  Kan   Yeang      31 Farmer  San Jose de Guat Landed 17-Mar Return laborer
21  25  Chan  King       30 ?        ?               Landed "I.T." Transit List 9121  Dep per City of Para April 8, 1898
22* 26  Foo   Nu   Wo??  39 Merchant San Francisco   Landed 17-Mar Affidavit Merchant
23  27  Seang Lin  Kan   25 Merchant Hong Kong       Landed 19-Mar Sec 6 Certificate
24  28  Hong  Yung       ?  Merchant Hong Kong       Landed 19-Mar Sec 6 Certificate
25  29  Cung  Koi        25 Merchant Hong Kong       Landed 23-Mar Native of US
26  35  Wing  S?? C?? Ko 30 ?        Hong Kong       Landed 30-Mar Native of US
27   8  Lai   Yan        35 Merchant Hong Kong       Landed "I.T." Transit List 9081  Dep per SPRR March 16, 1898
28  ?8  Yan   Chum       25 Merchant Hong Kong       Landed "I.T." Transit List 9082  Dep per SPRR March 16, 1898
29  19  Yan   Ng         ?  Merchant Hong Kong       Landed "I.T." Transit List 9083  Dep per SPRR March 16, 1898
30  20  Yan   K?ng       ?  ?        Hong Kong       Landed "I.T." Transit List 9084  Dep per SPRR March 16, 1898
31  751 Chan  ???  Su    ?  Wife                     Denied 17-Mar Dep per Gaelic March 16, 1898
32  752 Saw   Ma   Q??ng ?  Wife                     Landed 30-Mar Native of US
33  753 Ching Kum  Ko    ?  Wife                     Landed 31-Mar Native of US


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) 1898 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:
 Height
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification

An Affidavit Merchant is a document created by the passenger before departing the US.  It
 is an affidavit signed by a number of white men in the town where the passenger resided in
 the US to prove that he is/was a merchant.  A Sec 6 Certificate is a document to prove that
 the passenger is/was a merchant but created by the Chinese government in China.

There are a number of passengers listed as Return Laborer.  When the Chinese Exclusion Act
 was passed in 1882 a number of Chinese who had spent time in the US but had returned to China
 at the time of the Act were excluded from returning to the US until 1894 when the act was
 amended.  

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.

This is a particularly difficlut manifest to read there usually is no alternate interpretation
 to choose from. Rather than transcribe a list of mainly question marks the best possible
 reading is transcribed.  

22 Third name clearly has Wo.  There is a bare shadow that could be ng-Wong.
 

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