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 and 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) Wm Ward
Sworn to this ? day of Feb 1898, 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 tons
Columns represent: Number, No of Certificate, No of Ticket, 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 none 1 Wong Pun 20 San Francisco Landed 12-Feb Native U.S.
2* none 4 Ko Sang 21 San Francisco Landed 14-Feb Native U.S.
3 none 5 Ho Wing 20 San Francisco Landed 05-Mar Native U.S.
4 USCC 6 Chee Goon How 59 San Francisco Landed 05-Feb Affidavit Merchant
5 USCC 8 Ma Tuk Cheong 29 San Francisco Landed 08-Feb Sec 6 Certif
6 USCC 9 Wong Fun 35 San Francisco Landed 08-Feb Sec 6 Certif
7* USCC 10 Lan Tsan 32 San Francisco Landed 08-Feb Sec 6 Certif
8 none 11 Cheung Chase 43 San Francisco Landed 08-Feb Sec 6 Certif
9* none 12 Wong Ngong Hing 37 San Francisco Landed 08-Feb Sec 6 Certif
10 USCC 13 Wong Kwong 25 San Francisco Landed 08-Feb Sec 6 Certif
11* 14 Chee Yin Pin 17 San Francisco Landed 08-Feb Affidavit Merchant
12* 15 Wong Luk 18 San Francisco Landed 08-Feb Sec 6 Certif
13* 16 Lung Shee 38 San Francisco Landed 08-Feb Actors wife
14* 17 Shing Kueng 35 San Francisco Landed 05-Feb Affidavit Merchant
15* 18 Im On 34 San Francisco Landed 10-Feb Affidavit Merchant
16* USCC 19 Ip Shing Yee 43 San Francisco Landed 05-Feb Mchts wife
17* USCC 20 Chung Chi 9 San Francisco Landed 05-Feb Mchts daughter
18 USCC 21 Chung Tai Man 63 San Francisco Landed 05-Feb Affidavit Merchant
19 none 22 Chan Kwan On 26 San Francisco Landed 08-Feb Sec 6 Certif
20 USCC 23 Lum Lok 20 San Francisco Landed 10-Feb Sec 6 Certif
21 USCC 24 Tooi Kan 24 San Francisco Landed 08-Feb Sec 6 Certif
22 none 25 Chang Sum 20 San Francisco Landed 12-Feb Native U.S.
23* none 26 Lan Sang 18 San Francisco Landed 11-Feb Native U.S.
24 USCC 27 Lam Yai Loi 24 San Francisco Landed 11-Feb Sec 6 Certif
25 USCC 28 Hee Hin 22 San Francisco Landed 09-Feb Sec 6 Certif
26* 29 Li Kwai 30 San Francisco Landed 12-Feb Return Laborer
27 none 30 Wong Mon 24 San Francisco Landed 09-Feb Sec 6 Certif
28* USCC 31 Chung Wing 1y10m San Francisco Landed 05-Feb Mchts son
29 none 32 Ti Tuk 41 San Francisco Landed 08-Feb Sec 6 Certif
30* 33 Lai Hing Tong 24 San Francisco Landed 15-Feb Native U.S.
31 USCC 34 Lee Cheong 25 San Francisco Landed 02-Feb Sec 6 Certif
32 none 2 Wong Seung 56 San Benito Mex Dep per City Of Para Feb 18, 1898
33* none 3 Li Tsoi 39 San Benito mex Dep per City Of Para Feb 18, 1898
Recapitulation Males Females Total
San Francisco 28 3 31
San Benito 1 1 2
Total 29 4 33
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)
There are no numbers in the No of Certificate column.
Occupation is Grocer for all passengers except as noted below.
The following columns had no entries:
Height
Complexion
Color of Eyes
Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification
San Benito is an island off the coast of Baja Cailfornia.
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.
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 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.
Numerical notations for passengers most likely are entries relating to later travel.
They can be interpreted by contacting Bill Green, the Chinese specialist at NARA
in San Bruno, California.
2 22757/7-21 Self is written on the line
7 12217/19994 is written on the line.
9 13627/10-7 is written on the line.
11-15 It is difficult to interpret the No of Certificate column for these passengers.
For passenger 11 Chinese C is written in the space. On the next line,
under it, Residents card is written. Whether these notes refer to the individual
passengers individually or to both as Chinese Residents card is not clear.
There are other passengers with just Residents card entered. Further, there
are ditto marks for passengers 13-15. It is not clear whether the ditto marks
refer to Chinese residents card or to USCC as written for passenger 10.
Most of the entries in this column are, in fact, ditto marks.
13 Occupation is "to join her husband Woo Tai ?hicter."
16 Occupation is "with her husband Chung Tai Man."
17 Occupation is "with her mother #19."
23 Occupation is "with cousin Chang Sum."
26 Certificate No is Residents card.
28 Occupation is "with mother Ip Shing Yee #19."
30 Certificate No is Residents card.
33 Occupation is "with her husband Wong Seung #2."
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1414, Reel 6, Section 3, Vol. 38 & 39, Manifest 9613.
Transcribed by Fran Taylor, a member of the
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1 April 2008
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