Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS City of Rio de Janeiro

I, J Tremaine Smith, Master of the City of Rio de Janeiro 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) J T Smith
Sworn to this 4th day of Dec 1894, before me, (signature) M Craig, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the City of Rio de Janeiro whereof J Tremaine Smith is Master, from Hong Kong, burthen 2275.45 tons

Columns represent: Number, No if Ticket*, 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.

 1  1  July 18/92 Tam   See   Wing   46 San Diego     Landed 8-Dec Affadavit Merchant
 2* 2  Oct 31/92  Kock  Leong        50 San Francisco Landed 6-Dec Mcht & Doctor
 3  3  Mar 9/91   Leong Gun          25 San Francisco Landed 6-Dec Affadavit Merchant
 4  4  Mar 14/92  Leong Gam          34 San Francisco Landed 6-Dec Affadavit Merchant
 5* 30            Chun  Fook  Chai   43 Inyo, Cal     Landed 6-Dec wife of Merchant
 6* 34 June 22/92 Wong  Tong         23 Martinez, Cal Landed 7-Dec wife of Merchant
                                   For Havana
 7* 33            Chung Sha   Lung   33               Landed "I.T." Transit List 3941
                                   For Salina Cruz      
 8  5             Ng    Him          45 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894             
 9* 6             Ng    Yue   Ping   20 Salina Cruz   Landed "I.T." Transit List 3934    
10  7             Ng    Sum          20 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894             
11  8             Tang  Chee  Leong  24 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894             
12* 9             Ng    Yue   Kwai   55 Salina Cruz   Landed "I.T." Transit List 3935    
13* 10            Chue  Ngau         27 Salina Cruz   Landed "I.T." Transit List 3936    
14* 11            Chue  May          22 Salina Cruz   Landed "I.T." Transit List 3937    
15* 12            Ng    Ying  Hoo     4 Salina Cruz   Landed "I.T." Transit List 3938    
16  13            Lee   Kai   Foon   21 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894             
17  14            Lum   Kai   Chong  28 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894     
18  15            Lee   Wan          24 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894     
19  16            Wong  Tim   Young  22 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894     
20* 17            Lee   Chun  Kang   24 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894     
21  18            Leong Koon  Yue    25 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894     
22  19            Lee   Qwan         24 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894     
23  20            Wong  Chee  Cheong 37 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894     
24  21            Lee   Sing  Lan    24 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894     
25  22            Lee   Hie   Foo    25 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894     
26  23            Chee  Kin   Tai    23 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894     
27  24            Lee   Poy   Young  31 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894     
28* 25            Chue  Ting         15 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894     
29  26            Lee   Tim   King   20 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894     
30  27            Lee   Fook  Poy    33 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894     
31  28            Lee   Sam   Kan    20 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894     
32* 29            Yue   Kang  Pue    43 Salina Cruz   Landed "I.T." Transit List 39??
33* 31            Lum   Chung        28 Salina Cruz   Landed "I.T." Transit List 3942
34  32            Luen  Lue   Shun   27 Salina Cruz   Departed per Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894

Recapitulation   Male Female Totals
    For SF        4     2      6
    Havana        1            1
    S Cruz       25     2     27
     Totals      30     4     34  


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.

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 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

No of Ticket column was added by the original completer.

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."  On this list the occuption of all adult male passengers is Grocer, except passenger
 2, a Doctor.

The title Last Residence has been amended to Last Residence and Destination in United States.

Salina Cruz is on the Pacific coast of Mexico. 
 
 2  Occupation is Doctor.
 5  is female.  Occupation is "to join her husband."
 6  is female.  Occupation is "to join her husband." 
 7  departed per SSPR, probably Southern Pacific RR.
 9, 12-15  departed per SS Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894.
13  Occupation is"with her husband #9.
14  Occupation is "to join her husband."
15  Occupation is "with his mother #10."
20  "Escaped from Rio de J at wharf."
28  Occupation is "with his brothr #23."
32-33  departed per SS Colon Panama Dec 18, 1894.