California, San Francisco, Register of Chinese Immigrant Court Cases and Foreign Seamen Tax Cards, 1883-1924
This collection contains Register of Court Cases related to Chinese Immigrants arriving at or departing from San Francisco, California, 1883-1916. It also contains tax cards of foreign crew members examined at San Francisco, California, 1921-1924. The court case index cards are arranged numerically by court case number and usually list the name of the petitioner, claimant, or defendant. The tax cards are arranged numerically by ship arrival number and may contain person’s name, sex, age, marital status, head tax status, citizenship, race, place of last permanent residence, destination, port and date of arrival, destination, and purpose for entering the U.S. These records correspond with NARA publication A3381 and were filmed at the NARA facility in College Park, Maryland.
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California, San Francisco, Register of Chinese Immigrant Court Cases and Foreign Seamen Tax Cards
What is in This Collection?
This collection contains a register of court cases related to Chinese immigrants arriving at or departing from San Francisco, California for the years 1883 to 1916. It also contains tax cards of foreign crew members examined at San Francisco, California for the years 1921 to 1924.
The court case index cards are arranged numerically by court case number. The tax cards are arranged numerically by ship arrival number. These records correspond with NARA publication A3381 part of Records Group 85 Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.
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Court case index cards
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- California, San Francisco, Register of Chinese Immigrant Court Cases and Crew Member Tax Cards
Federal Court Case Card (sample 1)
Federal Court Case Card (sample 2)
Tax Card
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Collection Details
Location of Original Records
National Archives and Records Administration
"California, San Francisco, Register of Chinese Immigrant Court Cases and Foreign Seamen Tax Cards, 1883-1924." Database with images. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 19 March 2025. Citing NARA microfilm publication A3381. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2003.
