Immigrant Ships
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SS Belgic

I, John H. Rinder, Master of the Br Str Belgic 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 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) John H Rinder
Sworn to this 27 day of Feb 1896, before me, (signature) NS Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Br Str Belgic whereof John H. Rinder is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 2695 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 officers of Chinese Government, state facts.

              For San Francisco, Deposit of $100

 1*     Chow  Ying      27               Landed 2-Mar Wife of Merchant
                                                                        
              For San Francisco with Guarantee Letters                                                                  
                                                                        
 2* 663 Fong  Shen      31 San Francisco Landed 2-Mar Wife of Merchant
 3* 664 Moy   Ah   Fung 14 San Francisco Landed 2-Mar Native of US
 4* 665 Moy   Ah   Chue 16 San Francisco Landed 2-Mar Native of US
 5* 666 Moy   Ah   Kim  12 San Francisco Landed 2-Mar Native of US
 6* 667 Moy   Ah   Wah   8 San Francisco Landed 2-Mar Native of US
 7  668 Lai   Jim  Lew  42 Hollister     Landed 2-Mar Affadavit Merchant

              In Transit for Havana

 8  652 Jung  Qwai Yuen 43 China Departed per SS San Jose, Panama Feby 29, 1896          
 9  653 Chung Chow      36 China Departed per SS San Jose, Panama Feby 29, 1896          
10  654 Jung  Luk  On   22 China Departed per SS San Jose, Panama Feby 29, 1896          
11  655 Jung  Yue       44 China Departed per SS San Jose, Panama Feby 29, 1896
12  656 Jung  Leang     22 China Departed per SS San Jose, Panama Feby 29, 1896
13  657 Jung  Lum       29 China Departed per SS San Jose, Panama Feby 29, 1896

              For Callao*

14  658 Ho    Keang     54 China Departed per SS San Jose, Panama Feby 29, 1896
15  659 Ho    Man       16 China Departed per SS San Jose, Panama Feby 29, 1896
16  660 Sin   Pack Fong 3? China Departed per SS San Jose, Panama Feby 29, 1896

              For Salina Cruz*

17* 661 Chun  Kin       3? China Landed "I.T." Transit List 5124


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) 1895 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)

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

In the No of Certificate column Certificate is crossed out, replaced by Ticket.

Occupation is Grocer for all passengers except as noted below.

Callao is the port for Lima, Peru.  Salina Cruz is on the Pacific coast of Mexico.  

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.

 1   Occupation is Woman.
 2   There is another name in parentheses after Shen, (Fung).
     Occupation is "Wife Moy Pink Fun, Commercial St SF."  
 3-6 Occupation is "with Mother #663."  
 1-6 are recorded as female.
17   Departed per SS City of Sydney, Panama, March 25, 1896