Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS San Blas

I, Wm H McLean, Master of the Steamer San Blas 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 Panama and 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 H McLean
Sworn to this 15 day of May 1894, before me, (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the Str San Blas whereof Wm H McLean is Master, from Panama & Way Ports, burthen 1496.5 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*.

                   In Transit for Hong Kong

 1* Lee   Ching    44 Merchant   Panama     5'6" Landed  "I.T." Transit List 35?1
 2  Fan   Cow      41 Merchant   Panama     5'3" Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Hong Kong May 17, 1894      
 3  Low   Leoong   33 Merchant   Panama     5'5" Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Hong Kong May 17, 1895      
 4  He    Ho       49 Merchant   Panama     5'1" Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Hong Kong May 17, 1896      
 5  You   Pon      45 Merchant   Panama     5'1" Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Hong Kong May 17, 1897      
 6  Lamb  Yee      40 Merchant   Panama     5'4" Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Hong Kong May 17, 1898      
 7  Uh    Ya   Him 40 Merchant   Panama     5'5" Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Hong Kong May 17, 1899      
 8  Uh    Yee      39 Merchant   Panama     5'6" Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Hong Kong May 17, 1900      
 9  Lai   You      35 Merchant   Panama     5'2" Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Hong Kong May 17, 1901      
10  Luck  Loi      31 Merchant   Panama     5'3" Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Hong Kong May 17, 1902      
11  Yam   Hing     34 Laundryman Panama     5'7" Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Hong Kong May 17, 1903      
12  Ah    Leong    45 Merchant   Panama     5'7" Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Hong Kong May 17, 1904      
13  Lum   Lung     29 Merchant   Panama     5'3" Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Hong Kong May 17, 1905      
14  Ah    Pang     45 Merchant   Panama     5'4" Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Hong Kong May 17, 1906      
15* Ching How      28 Merchant   Panama     5'5" Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Hong Kong May 17, 1907      
16  Lim   Ah  Chin 42 Servant    Champerico 5'2" Departed per City of Rio de Janeiro Hong Kong May 17, 1908      


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 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 departure port is listed as simply Panama.  Research indicates this refers to 
 Panama City.

For passengers bound for San Francisco, passengers' names and ages are followed by a stamp 
 that varies depending on the disposition of the passenger and which is stamped over whatever 
 information has been entered in the columns. 
Passengers allowed to land have the following stamp:
 Landed Collectors order (blank with a month and day date written in) 1893 by  Insp's (blank 
 for a name). 
 
Passengers not allowed to land have one of two different stamps:
 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.
 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 identical entries and are not included in the table:
 No of Certificate=no entries
 Complexion=Yellow
 Color of Eyes=Dark
 Physical Marks or Peculiarities and Facts of Identification=no entries
 If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts=no entries

1  Transit List number could be 3591.  There is a partially visible note after this
    passenger's entry "per Rio May 17, 1894."
15 There is a second name in parentheses after the one transcribed above "Low Kee."

 

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