Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS San Juan

I, WG Pitts, Master of the Amer SS San Juan 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) Wm G Pitts
Sworn to this 17 day of Nov 1893, before me, NS Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Amer SS San Juan whereof WG Pitts is Master, from Panama, burthen 1496.46 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  Chang Ten       20  Merchant  Peru  Landed "I.T." Transit List 3213
2  Chang Jun       45  Merchant  Peru  Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Nov 21, 1893
3  Cue   Tay       43  Merchant  Peru  Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Nov 21, 1893
4  Ton   Ji        48  Merchant  Peru  Departed per steamer China Hong Kong Nov 21, 1893
5  Lan   You Son   45  Merchant  Peru  Landed "I.T." Transit List 3212
6  Look  Pan Quen  44  Merchant  Peru  Landed "I.T." Transit List 3211


Transcriber's Notes:

The departure port is listed as simply Panama.  Research indicates this refers to Panama City.

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.

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) 1893 by  Insp's (blank 
 for a name, in this case Grant). Many of these passengers have a place name written over 
 the stamp. Where a blank is transcribed in this column no place has been written in.  Where 
 there is a question mark the entry is illegible.
 
Passengers not allowed to land have one of two different stamps:
 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.
 Refused Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date).

For passengers bound for a further port there are two possible dispostions:
  Landed "I.T." Transit List followed by a number
  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
 If accredited oficers of Chinese Government, state facts

Occupation is universally recorded as Merchant or Grocer because following the Chinese 
 Exclusion Act of May 6, 1882 admission was denied to all Chinese except laborers already 
 in the US and "students, teachers, merchants or those proceeding to the United States from 
 curiosity."

All passengers are described as "In transit to Hong Kong." 

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