Immigrant Ships
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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 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 29 day of Aug 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 2275.46 tons

Columns represent: Number, No of Ticket, 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  15-Oct-95 Chen  Ling        34 Marshfield Or  Landed 8-Sep  Affidavit Merchant
 2  2  8-Aug-88  Lew   Daw   Fook  31 San Francisco  Landed 21-Sep Native of US
 3  3  17-Oct-94 Chun  Lee         34 Casper Wyo     Landed 16-Sep Affidavit Merchant
 4  8  7-Oct-93  Fong  Ching       29 Sacramento     Landed 2-Sep  Affidavit Merchant
 5  9  14-Sep-95 Chong Hong        31 Chicago        Landed 2-Sep  Affidavit Merchant
 6  10 14-Sep-95 Chong Quan        32 Chicago        Landed 2-Sep  Affidavit Merchant
 7  11 4-Dec-95  Chung Loy         47 San Diego      Landed 8-Sep  Affidavit Merchant
 8  13 No cert   Fong  Wah         24 San Francisco  Landed 5-Sep  Native of US
 9  14 12-Oct-95 Ngau  Quong Lee   40 Boston         Landed 2-Sep  Return Laborer
10  15 27-Jul-92 Gee   Mung  Tung  43 Los Angeles    Landed 8-Sep  Affidavit Merchant
11  16 12-Sep-95 Gee   Len         35 Los Angeles    Landed 2-Sep  Return Laborer
12* 17 21-Nov-95 Shen  Pak   Ton   35 Santa Monica   Landed 2-Sep  Return Laborer
13* 22 14-Oct-95 Quan  Kee         41 Angwin         Landed 8-Sep  Affidavit Merchant
14  23 21-Jun-95 Yee   Me          33 San Francisco  Landed 8-Sep  Affidavit Merchant
15* 24 17-Oct-94 Tang  Gee   Lee   34 Park City      Landed 8-Sep  Affidavit Merchant
16  26 25-Jul-95 Fang  Gin   Chuck 29 Fresno         Landed 4-Sep  Affidavit Merchant
17  27 22-Apr-95 Fang  Tan   Lee   27 San Francisco  Landed 4-Sep  Affidavit Merchant
18  28 10-Oct-94 Leong Teung       33 San Francisco  Landed 4-Sep  Affidavit Merchant
19  29 24-Sep-95 Lung  Hing        31 New York       Landed 2-Sep  Return Laborer
20  30 4-Sep-95  Lung  Quan        30 New York       Landed 2-Sep  Return Laborer
21* 34           Yew   Yow   Kam   21 San Francisco  Landed 2-Sep  Native of US
22* 35           Yew   Yow   Lun   20 San Francisco  Landed 2-Sep  Native of US
23* 36           Chong Sai   Kew   19 San Francisco  Refused Habeas Corpus USDC Case 11289       
24* 37           Yew   Chun  Lan   19 San Francisco  Landed 16-Sep Native of US
25* 38           Yuen  Tan   Fong  19 San Francisco  Refused Habeas Corpus USDC Case 11295       
26  39 Letter    Chan  Choy        19 San Francisco  Landed 12-Sep Native of US
27  40 Letter    Chan  Yoke        18 San Francisco  Landed 12-Sep Native of US
28  41 Deposit   Lee   Yuet  Ying  19 San Francisco  Landed 16-Sep Native of US
29  42 Deposit   Chan  Yuk   Ying  21 San Francisco  Landed 16-Sep Native of US
30  43 Deposit   Chan  Ngau  Ying  19 San Francisco  Landed 16-Sep Native of US
    44              not on board                                         
31  4            Wan   Cheong      34 Panama         Dep per Str Colon, Panama, Sept 8-'96               
32  5            Wan   Kum   Fang  31 Panama         Dep per Str Colon, Panama, Sept 8-'96                       
33  6            Wan   Lun         20 Panama         Dep per Str Colon, Panama, Sept 8-'96                       
34  7            Leong Yu          43 Panama         Dep per Str Colon, Panama, Sept 8-'96                       
35  12           Yu    Kam   Wo    44 Callao         Dep per Str Colon, Panama, Sept 8-'96                       
36  15           Wong  Chun        41 City of Mexico Landed "I.T." Transit List 5770 Dep per SPRR, ?
37  19           Wong  Chu   Yuen  42 City of Mexico Landed "I.T." Transit List 5771 Dep per SPRR, ?
38  20           Wang  Chow        48 City of Mexico Landed "I.T." Transit List 5772 Dep per SPRR, ?
39  21           Ho    Lui   Mee   25 City of Mexico Landed "I.T." Transit List 5773 Dep per SPRR, ?
40  25           Wo    Wan         44 City of Mexico Landed "I.T." Transit List 5774 Dep per SPRR, ?
41  32           Fang  Jo    Maw   23 City of Mexico Landed "I.T." Transit List 5775 Dep per SPRR, ?
42  33           Fang  Hong  Yop   47 City of Mexico Landed "I.T." Transit List 5776 Dep per SPRR, ?
43  31           Fang  Ching       27 Havana         Landed "I.T." Transit List 5769 Dep per SPRR, Havana
44*              Tien  Shu   Mien  25 San Francisco  Landed 29-Aug               
45*              Lew   Ming  Chwen 23 San Francisco  Landed

Recapitulation  Male  Females
 United States   22     10
 Panama           4
 Callao           1
 City of Mexico   7
 Havana           1
     Total     35 Males  10 Females


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) 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)

Occupation is Grocer for all passengers, except as noted below.

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

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.
 

12 Santa Monica is written in over the ditto marks that indicate Los Angeles.
13 Angwin is described as in Napa Co.
15 Park City is described as in Summit Co, Utah.
21 Occupation is "to join her husband."
22 Occupation is "to join her husband." 
23 Occupation is "to join her husband."
24 Occupation is "to join her husband."
25 Occupation is "to join her husband."  Something is written below the Refused stamp that
    seems to start "To be landed."  Nothing more is legible.
44 Occupation is Scholar.  There is a note in the No of Certificate column, "Passport,U.S.
    Consul" and two more illegible words.  There is a note "??? also a scar on left temple."
45 There is information on the right hand side of the list that is illegible.

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