Immigrant Ships
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SS City of Sydney

I, Frank H. Johnston, Master of the SS 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 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 21* day of September 1896, before me, (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the SS 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*.

              In Transit for Hong Kong

 1  Dan     Yen   Merchant Panama Dep per Str Peking, Hong Kong, Sept ?
 2* Jon     ?eng  Merchant Panama Dep per Str Peking, Hong Kong, Sept ?
 3* Paco?         Merchant Panama Dep per Str Peking, Hong Kong, Sept ?
 4  Leon    Tan   Merchant Panama Dep per Str Peking, Hong Kong, Sept ?
 5  Ricardo Atong Merchant Panama Dep per Str Peking, Hong Kong, Sept ?
 6  Wa      Hee   Merchant Panama Dep per Str Peking, Hong Kong, Sept ?
 7  Chack   Hee   Merchant Panama Dep per Str Peking, Hong Kong, Sept ?
 8  Ah      Hsiu  Merchant Panama Dep per Str Peking, Hong Kong, Sept ?
 9  Ong     Weng  Merchant Panama Dep per Str Peking, Hong Kong, Sept ?
10  Ah      Fang  Merchant Panama Dep per Str Peking, Hong Kong, Sept ?


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.

The Sworn Statement says Sep 21 but 20 is written in above it and Sept 20 is the date
 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) 1896 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
 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.

2  Second name could be Geng.
3  Name ends in e or c, Pacoe or Pacoc.

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