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Created1866
DescriptionAn identity card for Pelayo, a Chinese settler. Pelayo was thirty-eight years old when this card was issued and worked for Nicolas Martinez Valdiviero. He had completed an eight-year contract yet with B. Pereda.
Created1861-05-08
DescriptionJustino Campbell transferred his contracts with several Chinese settlers in Cardenas and Matanzas to the Superior Civil Government so that these workers may obtain their cedulas or personal identity cards.
Created1880
DescriptionAn identity card, or cedula, for Santiago Auy, originally from Canton. He was 26 years old when this card was issued.
Created1860-11-12
DescriptionThis is a neighborhood identity card (cedula) that belonged to Teodoro, a Chinese settler. San Antonio, 1860.
Created1855
DescriptionThe intent of this document was to stipulate the purposes and rules regarding cedulas (neighborhood identity cards).
Created1872-01-25
DescriptionThis is a neighborhood identity card (cedula) that belonged to Gustabo, a Chinese settler. It lists his home address.
Created1867-06-13
Description
This is the first labor contract between Sang, otherwise known as Faustino, a Chinese settler, and his new owner, Jose Serrate in Matanzas. This contract was issued after Faustino completed a separate labor contract with another owner. The contract was for one year and his salary was twelve pesos and seventy-five cents. At the bottom, the contract is signed by Jose Serrate, the governor of Matanzas, and two witnesses, but not Faustino himself.
Created1871-02-16
Description
Neighborhood ID card (a cedula) that belonged to Benito Ramos, a Chinese settler.
Created1865
DescriptionThis is a cedula, or identity card, that belonged to a Chinese settler named Listo. At the time that this cedula was issued for him, Listo was 29 years old, and in the process of completing an eight year labor contract with Jose Aranguren. 1865.
Created1866
DescriptionAn identity card, or cedula, for Hermin, originally from Canton. He was 34 years old when this card was issued. He was employed by Jose Maria Morales.