Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS City of Para

I, Thos Mortensen, Master of the City of Para 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 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) Thos Mortensen
Sworn to this 15* day of Feb 1897, before me, (signature) JJ Tobin, Deputy Collector of Customs

Separate List or Manifest of all the Chinese Passengers taken on board the City of Para whereof Thos Mortensen is Master, from New York, burthen 2504.82 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*.

 1  Lo   Chun San 34 Merchant Panama 5'3" Dark Dark None Dep per Str Doric, Hong Kong, Feby 23-'97
 2  Ah   Yuen     30 Merchant Panama 5'4" Dark Dark None Dep per Str Doric, Hong Kong, Feby 23-'97
 3* Ho   Cung     26 Merchant Panama 5'6" Dark Dark None Dep per Str Doric, Hong Kong, Feby 23-'97
 4* Leon Kan      28 Merchant Panama 5'3" Dark Dark None Dep per Str Doric, Hong Kong, Feby 23-'97
 5  Hong Chang    22 Merchant Panama 5'4" Dark Dark None Dep per Str Doric, Hong Kong, Feby 23-'97
 6  Chin Hang     24 Merchant Panama 5'2" Dark Dark None Dep per Str Doric, Hong Kong, Feby 23-'97
 7  Lai  Chou     23 Merchant Panama 5'6" Dark Dark None Dep per Str Doric, Hong Kong, Feby 23-'97
 8  Ch?n Ham      26 Merchant Panama 5'5" Dark Dark None Dep per Str Doric, Hong Kong, Feby 23-'97
 9  Tin  Seng     50 Merchant Panama 6'7" Dark Dark None Dep per Str Doric, Hong Kong, Feby 23-'97
10  Ah   Lau      52 Merchant Panama 5'4" Dark Dark None Dep per Str Doric, Hong Kong, Feby 23-'97
11  No   Kee      36 Merchant Panama 5'6" Dark Dark None Dep per Str Doric, Hong Kong, Feby 23-'97


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 a part of the National
 Archives file system on Chinese persons.  These numbers are included in the identification 
 of the film and reel numbers below.

The Sworn Statement is dated Feb 15th but 14th is written in beside it and the cover sheet
 is dated Feb 14th as well.

Passengers bound for a further destination have two possible dispositions:
  Landed "I.T." Transit List followed by a number  These passengers expected to continue travel 
   by some other means to their destinations.
  Departed Per Steamer ______ (name of ship) _________ (date)

The following columns had no entries:
 No of Certificate
 If accredited officers of Chinese Government, state facts

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.

3 Landed "I.T." Transit List 6197.
4 Landed "I.T." Transit List 6198.