Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS City of Sydney

I, JM Cavarly, Master of the 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) JM Cavarly
Sworn to this 11 day of Sept 1893, before me, NS Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the City of Sydney whereof JM Cavarly is Master, from Panama, burthen 1965.88 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  D.      Ajon     42 Merchant So Amer Departed per steamer China September 12, 1893
 2  Mrs     Ajon     30 Traveler So Amer Departed per steamer China September 12, 1894
 3  Miss    Ajon     12 Traveler So Amer Departed per steamer China September 12, 1895
 4  Miss    Ajon      5 Traveler So Amer Departed per steamer China September 12, 1896
 5  Oh      Tuck     40 Merchant So Amer Departed per steamer China September 12, 1897
 6  Lai     Foon     36 Merchant So Amer Departed per steamer China September 12, 1898
 7* ????i   Lio      37 Merchant So Amer Departed per steamer China September 12, 1899
 8  Hin     Chan     32 Merchant So Amer Departed per steamer China September 12, 1900
 9  Chong   Hong Sam 35 Merchant So Amer Departed per steamer China September 12, 1901
10  Joaquin Wam      40 Merchant So Amer Departed per steamer China September 12, 1902
11* Moises  Aufo?d   46 Merchant So Amer Departed per steamer China September 12, 1903


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, 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.
 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
 If accredited oficers of Chinese Government, state facts


 7  Name looks most like Chuni.
11  Surname is either Auford or Aufond.

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