Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Colon

I, W A Clark, Master of the S.S. Colon 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 and Way Ports 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 A Clark
Sworn to this 29th day of August 1893, before me, N S Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the S.S. Colon whereof Jos. Avery* is Master, from Panama, burthen 1848 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* F^co    Sing      30 Merchant  Acapulco Landed "I.T." Transit List 2965      no
 2  R.      Cuan      24 Merchant  Panama   Landed "I.T." Transit List 2964      no
 3  Jose    Sanchez   50 Carpenter Panama   Departed fo Hong Kong Peking Sept 29 no
 4* Stg^o.  Sanchez   40 Merchant  Panama   Departed fo Hong Kong Peking Sept 29 no
 5  Segundo Sanchez    2 his son   Panama   Departed fo Hong Kong Peking Sept 29 no
 6  Leong   Chong     27 Merchant  Panama   Landed "I.T." Transit List 2966      no
 7  Hei     Goo       32 Merchant  Panama   Landed "I.T." Transit List 2967      no
 8  Lai     Ping Pong 52 Clerk     Panama   Departed fo Hong Kong Peking Sept 29 no
 9  Ah      Feo       40 Clerk     Panama   Departed fo Hong Kong Peking Sept 29 no
10  Tali    Chee      36 Clerk     Panama   Departed fo Hong Kong Peking Sept 29 no
11* Lau     ah   loon 50 Merchant  Panama   Departed fo Hong Kong Peking Sept 29 no


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 reel numbers below.

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 one of the following stamps:
 Landed Collectors order (blank with a month and day date written in) 1893 by 
 Insp's (blank for a name). 
 Landed "I.T." Transit List followed by a number.  These passengers are bound for a 
  further port.
Passengers not allowed to land have one of two different stamps:
 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.
 Refused Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date).

The following columns had no entries and are not included in the table:
 No of Certificate
 Height
 Complexion
 Color of Eyes
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification

All passengers are joined by a bracket and the note "I T for Hong Kong."  I T probably
 means in transit.
 1  First name is probably Francisco.
 4  First name is probably Santiago.
11  The second and third names are written on the manifest without capitals.

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