Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS City of Puebla

I, G Debney, Master of the City of Puebla 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 2nd day of February 1895, before me, Chas Miller, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Steamship City of Puebla whereof G Debney is Master, from Port Townsend, burthen 1713 tons

OFFICE OF THE COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS
Port of Port Townsend, Wash

COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.,
Feb 2, 1895
Sir:--I certify that the S.S. City of Puebla sailed this day for San Francisco via Victoria with Chinese passengers destined for San Francisco, as follows:--One (signature) Chas Miller, Deputy Collector

Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 5 day of Feb 1895 (signature) JJ Tobin, 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  127119  Gon Loy   37 yr   Merchant   Seattle   5'3½"  Dark, Brown, scar on neck under right ear


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 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 part of the filing system
 for Chinese persons at the National Archives.  These numbers are included in the 
 identification of the film and reel numbers below.

The first two paragraphs above are printed as part of the form for this list.  The next 
 paragraph and its headings is a piece of paper attached to the page.  After this is a 
 separate stamp placed on the body of the page and then completed.

The cover sheet for this list has two hand written notes.  
 Inspector: Land the within named Chinaman after identification and production of
  registration certificate  (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector 
 I certify that I have this day landed the within named Chinese who had a registration 
 certificate other than laborer number 127119, February 4, 1895 
  (signature) WW Presbury, Chinese Inspector

There is also a note on the cover sheet "Broadway Wharf to 3 PM, 1271?9" 

There were no entries for "If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts."

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 State from 
 curiosity."

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.

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