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- Member of: Chinese Immigrants in Cuba: Documents From the James and Ana Melikian Collection
Created1860-09-27
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Records of business deals of the Society of Troncaso Bustamante, specifically relating to their hiring practices and the ages of their settlers. Relates their illegal hiring of settlers under the age of 14. Article 8 of the laws concerning the hiring of Chinese settlers stated that the hiring of people under the age of 14 was illegal.
Created1867-04-17
DescriptionReport detailing the regulations and laws concerning the burial of Chinese settlers and the efforts of the Commission led by Mateo Menudo to establish these laws.
Created1886
DescriptionLaws pertaining to the legal rights of of landowners living in a certain area and their obligations. This includes how owners are supposed to write their contracts with their Chinese workers, including informing them of their payment and the terms of their contracts.
Created1865
DescriptionCertification of death for a Chinese settler, Fransisco, who died at the hospital Rafael. He worked for the local railroad. 1865
Created1866
DescriptionThis is an oath of allegiance signed by a Chinese settler in order to become a natural citizen of Cuba. Signed in Chinese.
Created1866-06-21
Description
Records for the ship "Flora," which brought Chinese settlers from China to Cuba under contract with Torices, Puente y Co. On this trip, the Flora brought 589 settlers from China to work. The ship was captained by Lafontaine.
Created1866-08-14
DescriptionRecords indicating that the police oversaw the unloading of the Chinese settlers abroad the Hora.