such audit to take place during the thirty- 

 days preceding the annual meeting and a full 

 an I complete report of such audit shall be 

 made to the superintetidcnt of the reserva- 

 tion on or before the date of the annual 

 meeting. 



"11. Members shall be paid bi-weekly for 

 the fish purchased from them by the associa- 

 tion, the price to be determined by the 

 manager and to be such as to insure the pay- 

 ment of (a) and (b) of this section. The 

 proceeds of the business shall constitute a 

 fund which shall be distributed as follows: 



"(a) Current operating and mainten- 

 ance expenses shall be paid, 



"(b) Five percent of the gross re- 

 ceipts from the fish purchased by the 

 association from its members shall be paid 

 into the Treasury of the United States, to 

 be credited to the tribal funds of the Red 

 Lake Indians. 



"(c) k certain percentage to be deter- 

 mined by the board of directors of the 

 association shall be set aside for an oper- 

 ating capital. 



"(d) ^fter making the above deductions 

 the remaining amount shall be paid at least 

 annually to the members on a patronage basis, 

 to be determined by the board of directors 

 from the quantity and kind of fish purchased 

 by the association from its respective mem- 

 bers. 



"12. All receipts from the sale of fish 

 taken from waters on the Red Lake Reserva- 

 tion shall be trust funds, subject to the 

 control of the Commissioner of Indian 

 Affairs, and shall be distributed as pro- 

 vided in section 11 hereof till otherwise 

 directed by a modification or amendment of 

 these rules and regulations. 



"13. The funds of the association shall be 

 kept in a depository selected by the board 

 of directors, and withdrawn only on vouchers 

 signed by the secretary-treasurer and count- 

 ersigned by the manager. 



"111. All marketable fish must be delivered 

 in good condition to the association at its 

 place of business at Redby, Minnesota. All 



unmarketable live fish must be returned to 

 the waters, and all unraarkstable dead fish 

 must be buried by the person taking same. 



"15. A total of not to exceed 6$0,000 

 pounds of fish may be taken in any one sea- 

 son, exclusive of rough fish and fish taken 

 for propagation purposes. 



"16, (a) Any variety of fish may be taken 

 by Indians from any of the waters on the 

 Zted Lake Reservation by hook and linej and 

 from Upper and Lower Red Lakes by gill nets, 

 pound nets, or trap nets, 



"(b) Each member of the association 

 shall be limited to five gill nets of 300 

 feet in len.=^;th and 6 feet in depth. 



"(c) Gill net-s for taking pike shall 

 have a mesh of not less than 3-3/U inches 

 extension measure. 



" (d) Gill nets for taking whitef ish 

 shall have a mesh of not less than 5-1/2 

 inches extension measure, 



"(e) Pound nets may be used for tak- 

 ing fish for propagation purposes, 



"(f) Trap nets in accordance with the 

 spiicifications and directions of the manager 

 may be used for taking fish of any variety, 



"17. Kach Indian family shall be limited 

 to on- membership in the association, but 

 single male Indians over twenty-one years 

 of age shall be entitled to a membership," 



The principal terms of the 1929 lease 

 that entitled the Red Lake Fisheries Associa- 

 tion to use the fishery building and equipment at 

 Redby were as follows: 



1 . A conveyance of the lease to the Com- 

 missioner of Game and Fish of Minnesota of 

 lands owned by the Minneapolis, Red Lake, and 

 Manitoba Railway Company, situated near the 

 town of Redby, Minnesota, at the mouth of Mud 

 Creek on the south shore of Lower Red Lake . 



2 . The fishery buildings, dock, and all 

 equipment were leased with the provision that 

 the Association assume the cost of maintenance, 



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