Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS City of Peking

I, Wm Ward, Master of the City of Peking 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 & 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 Ward
Sworn to this 22 day of Dec 1894, before me, (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the _______ whereof _______ is Master, from ________, burthen _____ tons*

Columns represent: Number, No of Ticket*, 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.

              Hong Kong to San Francisco

 1  1  You   Fee         33 Merchant Santa Rosa    Landed 28-Dec Affadavit Merchant
 2  2  Law   Hay         53 Merchant San Francisco Landed 28-Dec Affadavit Merchant
 3  5  Foon  Wing        48 Merchant San Jose      Landed 28-Dec Affadavit Merchant
 4  6  Ah    Quong       41 Merchant Sacramento    Landed 31-Dec Affadavit Merchant
 5  7  Wong  Yen  Song   36 Merchant Sacramento    Landed 31-Dec Affadavit Merchant
 6  8  Wong  Bock Hoy    28 Merchant San Francisco Landed 28-Dec Affadavit Merchant
 7  9  Wong  Ah   Coon   51 Merchant Sacramento    Landed 28-Dec Affadavit Merchant
 8  10 Toy   Fong        33 Merchant Los Angeles   Landed 31-Dec Affadavit Merchant
 9  11 Toy   Chong       36 Merchant Los Angeles   Landed 31-Dec Affadavit Merchant
10  25 Hock  Soon        40 Merchant Oakland       Refused Departed per City of Peking Hong Kong Jan 3,1895

             Chinese for Salina Cruz*

11  12 Wang  Sai  Kee    40 Laborer  China         Departed per Steamer Colima Panama Jan 18, 1895       
12  13 Wang  Kai  Ting   40 Laborer  China         Departed per Steamer Colima Panama Jan 18, 1895       
13  14 Wang  Kock Wing   23 Laborer  China         Departed per Steamer Colima Panama Jan 18, 1895       
14  15 Wang  Poy  Chue   22 Laborer  China         Departed per Steamer Colima Panama Jan 18, 1895       
15  16 Wang  Sai  Chang  44 Laborer  China         Departed per Steamer Colima Panama Jan 18, 1895       
16  17 Wang  Chin Fang   20 Laborer  China         Departed per Steamer Colima Panama Jan 18, 1895
17  18 Wang  Wan         33 Laborer  China         Departed per Steamer Colima Panama Jan 18, 1895
18  19 Wong  Sam         23 Laborer  China         Departed per Steamer Colima Panama Jan 18, 1895
19  20 Wang  Hee         23 Laborer  China         Departed per Steamer Colima Panama Jan 18, 1895
20  21 Wong  Chaw Sing   25 Laborer  China         Departed per Steamer Colima Panama Jan 18, 1895

             Chinese for Callao*

21  22 Kwock Pue         20 Laborer  China         Departed per steamer City of Sydney Panama Dec 31, 1894
22  23 Chun  Chiang      20 Laborer  China         Departed per steamer City of Sydney Panama Dec 31, 1894

             Chinese for Havana by Steamer

23  4  Tang  Chung       35 Laborer  China         Departed per steamer City of Sydney Panama Dec 31, 1894
24  24 Chew  Kaw         30 Laborer  China         Departed per steamer City of Sydney Panama Dec 31, 1894
25  25 Chew  Keong       32 Laborer  China         Departed per steamer City of Sydney Panama Dec 31, 1894

        Recapitulation     Males
        For San Francisco   10
        For Salina Cruz     10
        For Callao           2
        For Havana           3
             Total          25


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 inforamtion 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 appears to be a system of numbering the manifests. These numbers are 
 included in the identification of the film and reel numbers below.

The burthen was not completed on this list but on other contemporaneous lists it is
 3129 tons.

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) 1894 by Insp's
 (blank for a name, in this case Grant). 
 
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 No of Ticket column is written in where No of Certificate had been.

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

Occupation of passengers bound for the U.S. 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."

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