Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS St Paul

Pacific Coast Steamship Company

QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED BY THE IMMIGRANT BEFORE BOOKING

NOTICE! If it is found upon the arrival of the immigrant in the United States that the following questions have not been correctly answered, the immigrant will be immediately returned. The immigrant will be required to swear to the truth of the following answers, if it be called for by the Commissioner of Immigration at the port of arrival in the United States. (A false oath will subject the immigrant to fine or imprisonment.)

Name: *                                       Date when booked:*
Agent's Name: *                               Agent's place of business:* 
Name of Steamer for which booked:St Paul      Date of sailing from *

Columns represent: Number, Name, Age, Sex, Married or Single, Occupation, Able to Read & Write, Nationality, Last Residence, By whom was passage paid?, Whether in Possession of Money-if less than $30, how much?, Whether ever before in the US, Whether going to join Relative or Friend

  
1* Antonia    Flores       50 Female Single  Servant   no  Mexican  San Fran self   more yes None
2* Maria      Ybarra       15 Female Single  Visitor   yes Mexican  Mazatlan self   10   No  yes
3* J.         Ruiz Rojas   59 Male   Married Military  yes Austrian San Fran self   $35  yes yes
4* ?udio      Rico          8 Male   Single  schoolboy yes Mexican  Mexico   mother none No  yes
5* Manuela    Ramos y Piņa 18 Female Single  Milliner  yes Mexican  Mazatlan self   $10  No  yes
6* Fernando V Martinez     19 Male   Single  schoolboy yes Mexican  La Paz   self   $5   No  yes                                     

I hereby certify that I have made true answers to the questions which were asked in language understood by me, and which answers have been recorded above.*

                              
Transcriber's Notes:

This list is unusual in that it is designed for each passenger to have a a separate
page. At the top of each page appear blanks labeled: 
Name:                                         Date when booked: 
Agent's Name:                                 Agent's place of business:  
Name of Steamer for which booked:             Date of sailing from 

Beneath this the information for the passenger is filled out in the columns 
described above.

The transcriber has condensed the information in the columns of the various pages 
into the table above. 
At the bottom of each page is an oath and a blank for the passenger's signature. 

Some of the passengers also have notes on their pages.  
These and the information in the blanks at the top of the page are transcribed in 
the individual notes below. The Agent's Name and Agent's Place of Business were 
not completed on any of the pages.

The following columns had identical entries for all passengers and so were not 
included in the table:
 Final Destination in the US=San Francisco  
 Seaport for Landing in the US=San Francisco  
 Whether having a ticket to final destination=yes
 Whether ever in Prison, Almshouse or supported by Charity=no
 Whether a Polygamist=no
 Whether under contract to labor in the US=no
 Condition of Health Mental and Physical=good
 Whether having any deformities=no

There is no captain's statement nor captain's name attached to this manifest. 
Letters that are illegible or difficult to interpret are replaced by ?.
 
1 passage was booked June 9, 1894, sailing from Mazatlan June 9, 1894.  There 
  is no signature on this page.  She has been to S.F. Apl 1892.  note:  "Returning 
  home after a visit of two months in Mexico.  Returns to the house of Cruz 
  Esquater corner Vallejo & Stockton St SF."
2 passage was booked June 9, 1894, sailing from Mazatlan June 9, 1894.  The 
  signature is "Minerva Ibarra," written in a very cultured hand.  She is going 
  to join Aunt Ponitencia Gonzalez, Oakland.  There is a note on this page, but it 
  is so faint not a single word is legible.  
3 passage was booked June 9, 1894, sailing from Mazatlan June 9, 1894.  The 
  signature is "J. Ruixer Rojas."  He has been to San Francisco May 1894.  Going 
  to join says:"Has his sons in San Luis Obispo." Obispo.
4 passage was booked June 15, 1894, sailing from Ensenada June 15, 1894.  The 
  signature is "Claudio Rico."  He is going to join Aunt Mrs Montero   
  8213 Jackson St S.F.  Note: "This boy is being sent to San Francisco to attend 
  school."  
5 passage was booked June 9, 1894, sailing from Mazatlan June 9, 1894.  The 
  signature is "Manuela Ramos y Piņa." She is going to join Aunt Leonor Piņa.  
  Note: "came to visit her cous??  1st cousin ? Piņa de ?? is her name and ? lives 
  at 1330 Stockton Has 13 Mex dollars and 3 Amer dollars. Intends to remain."  
  "Returns to Mexico after visiting her aunt."  Both intentions- to stay and to 
  return- are written on the manifest, but in different hands, the intention to 
  return is the same hand as the rest of the manifest.  
6 passage was booked June 8, 1894, sailing from La Paz June 8, 1894.  The signature 
  is " F. Z. Martinez."  His middle initial is written as "V" in both places where 
  his name is written in, presumably by someone else, but as "Z" where he signed 
  the page.  "more in San Francisco with Geo Staacko" is written in the Money 
  column.  He is going to join uncle, J. Martinez.
  

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M1410, Reel 1, Vol 2, Pages 65-67, 86-88.