Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

S S City of Puebla

I, G Debney, Master of the City of Puebla 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, BC 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)G Debney
Sworn to before me, this 2nd day of May 1893 (signature)M Webber, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the City of Puebla whereof G. Debney is Master, from Victoria, BC, burthen 1713 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 oficers of Chinese Government state facts.

1* Eng Sin   Sang   45 Merchant Victoria ?           Dark Dark Scar ?? Left Ear    Affdt Merchant
2* San Ching Hin    61 Merchant Victoria 5ft 4 3/4   Dark Dark Mole under Left ear Affdt Merchant


Transcriber's Notes:

The pages on this film are not numbered so finding a particular ship can be difficult.  
 However, There appears to be a system of numbering the manifests.  These numbers are
 included in the identification of the film and roll numbers below.
There is a stamp across each line that often obscures whatever information has been entered 
 in the columns. This stamp indicates the status of the passenger regarding entry to the US.
Passengers allowed to land have one of the following stamps:
 Landed Collectors order___(blank with a month and day date written in) i893 by Insp__(blank 
  for name). 
 Landed "I.T." Transit List followed by a number.  These passengers are bound for a further 
  port outside the US.
Passengers not allowed to land have one of two different stamps:
 Habeas Corpus U.S.D.O. Case followed by a number.
 Refused Departed Per Steamer _____ (name of ship) _____ (date).
The final column is a response to the Chinese Exclusion Act that provided that merchants 
 could enter. 
There are no entries in the No of Certificate column.

Passenger Notes
1 Height is obscured by the stamp as is the word between Scar and Left Ear. This passenger 
   is stamped Landed May 2, 1893.
2 This passenger is stamped Landed "I.T." Transit List 2202.  There is no indication of where
   the passenger is further bound.