Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Mexico

I, G Debney, Master of the Steamship Mexico 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 Port Townsend from which port said vessel has now arrived, and they have not landed at any foreign port or place during the voyage, 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) G Debney
Sworn to this 23rd day of May 1894, before me, EB Barnprop, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Steamship Mexico whereof G Debney is Master, from Port Townsend, burthen 1340 tons

CUSTOM HOUSE, PORT TOWNSEND, WASHINGTON TERRITORY

Collector's Office May 23 1894 Statement of the number of Chinese passengers embarked per SS Mexico (from U.S. ports of this District________, from Victoria, B.C., ______ in transit to China_________,)* Total Three

Sailed from Victoria, B.C. May 23, 1894. I hereby certify the above to be correct and that the certificates of Victoria Chinamen have been compared by me with the Register on file at the Customs House at Port Townsend and are found to be correct. (signature) EB Barnprop, Deputy Collector of Customs

Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 28 day of May 1894 (signature) NS Farley, Deputy Collector of Customs

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*.

1  Lee  Soon 34 Laundryman Port Townsend        5'8"    none            
2  Wong Ping 29 Laborer    Port Townsend        5'6½'   scar across bridge of nose              
3  Yan  Foon 40 Laborer    Port Townsend        5'5¼"   scar near cent of mouth         


Transcriber's Notes:

* An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder, not the transcriber,
  or calls attention to additional information in the transcriber notes.

The first two paragraphs above are printed as part of the form for this list.  The next two
 paragraphs are stamps added to the page and then completed.  The  first stamp is 
 crossed out in the part indicated by parentheses above, and replaced by:
 "for San Francisco Cal via Victoria B.C.  

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.  In this portion of the
 film the numbers are not in exact order.  These numbers are included in the identification 
 of the film and reel numbers below.

The cover sheet for this list has a stamp and a handwritten note.  
 Surveyor: Land the within named Chinese person on identification 
  (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector 
 I certify that I have this day landed the within named Chinese passenger 
  (signature) WW Presbury, Chinese Inspector May 28, 1894
 

The following columns had identical entries for all passengers and so were not included in 
the table:
 No of Certificate=no entries 
 Complexion=Dk
 Color of Eyes=Dk 
 If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts=no entries

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