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in the table (p. 11) regarding the Alaska Peninsula Fisheries Res- 

 ervation. No other permits were granted for the Aleutian Islands 

 proper. At the end of the calendar year notice was mailed to all 

 holders of permits that such permits were canceled and if it was 

 desired to operate in the season of 1923 application for new permits 

 should be made under the revised regulations issued December 14, 

 1922, for the administration of the Alaska Peninsula Fisheries Reser- 

 vation. 



A permit for the grazing of sheep on Amaknak Island was granted 

 to O. K. Quean jointly by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Com- 

 merce under date of February 13, 1922. 



ANNETTE ISLAND FISHERY RESERVE. 



Fishery operations within the Annette Island Fishery Reserve 

 were again conducted in the season of 1922 by the Annette Island 

 Packing Co. under its lease from the Department of the Interior. 

 Data in regard to operations have been furnished by the Bureau 

 of Education, of that department, which administers the affairs of 

 the reserve for the benefit of the Metlakatla Indians residing therein. 



In 1922 the total number of fish taken by traps within the reserve 

 was 847,800, on which a royalty of 1 cent per fish was paid, amount- 

 ing to $8,478. A fee of $100 each for the five traps operated was also 

 charged. In addition 318,553 salmon were taken by natives in purse 

 seines and gill nets and were purchased by the company for $13,- 

 351.26. The natives received $25,425.32 for cannery labor, and other 

 payments brought the total amount disbursed to the Indians by the 

 Annette Island Packing Co. to $52,186.94, which was $13,794.87 

 more than in 1921. In addition the amounts of $500 for trap fees 

 and $2,478.54 for case tax on canned salmon are due but withheld 

 pending a decision on a suit brought by the Territory of Alaska 

 for collection of territorial license taxes for 1922. This suit was de- 

 cided in favor of the Federal Government on trial in the United 

 States District Court at Juneau, but was taken on appeal by the 

 Territory to the Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. 



The six-year lease to the Annette Island Packing Co. expired Octo- 

 ber 1, 1922. During this period $11,429.72 Avas paid to the Indiang 

 of the reserve for trap fees and per case tax paid to council, $50,- 

 261.27 for salmon taken in traps, $172,465.11 for cannery labor, and 

 $68,526.89 for salmon taken by purse seines and gill nets. Other 

 miscellaneous items brought the grand total to $337,556.30, exclusive 

 of approximately $7,547.30 and the territorial income tax, payment 

 of which is withheld pending decision of the territorial case men- 

 tioned above. 



STREAM MARKERS. 



Considerable work was done in marking the mouths of streams in 

 the southeast district of Alaska in the season of 1922 because of 

 the change in the regulations under date of December 30, 1921, which 

 extended the protected zone from 200 yards to 500 yards off the 

 mouths of all streams. Larger notices and more substantial posts 

 and signs were used. Attention was particularly given to the 

 streams heretofore unmarked along the west coast of Baranof 

 Island from Sitka to Cape Ommaney and through Peril Strait, 



