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An itemized statement of the account showing the individual 

 bahmces of the natives follows : 



Pribilof Islands natives' savings accounts in custody of U. 8. Commissioner of 

 Fisheries, as trustee, December 31, 1922. 



St. 



PAYMENTS FOE TAKING SEAXSKINS. 



Continuing the practice of preceding years payments to certain 

 persons engaged in the taking of sealskins in 1922 were made from 

 funds advanced by the department's selling agents, the Fouke Fur 

 Co., who were reimbursed subsequently from proceeds of sales of 

 skins. The funds were deposited in a bank in Seattle and made pay- 

 able to the order of the bureau's authorized and bonded agent at the 

 Pribilofs. From these funds the natives of the Pribilofs were paid 

 at the rate of 50 cents for each sealskin taken, four native foremen 

 were given $200 for additional services, and the salaries of a num- 

 ber of sealing assistants and the wages of some natives from Un- 

 alaska and elsewhere temporarily employed at the islands were paid, 

 the amounts earned by these persons being as follows : 



Salaries of sealing assistants $13, 364. 15 



Wages of temporary native workmen 19, 729. 80 



Amount earned by St. Paul natives 13, 117. 50 



Amount earned by St. George natives 2, 660. 50 



Total 48, 871. 95 



St. Paul Islmid. — For the 20,035 sealskins taken on St. Paul Is- 

 land in the calender year 1922 tlie resident natives received 50 cents 

 per skin and in addition two foremen received $50 each for special 



' Deceased. 



> Not living on island in 1922. 



• New account. 



