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U. S. BUREAU OF FISHERIES 



SCHOOLS 



St. Paul Island.— T\\& school term of 1922-23 opened October 3, 

 1922, with an enrolhnent of 14 boj^s and 11 girls in the senior school 

 and 16 boys and 16 girls in the junior school, a total of 60 pupils. 

 The school term closed April 27, 1923. 



St. George Island.— The 1922-23 term began October 23, 1922, 

 with an attendance of 15 bovs and 22 girls. The term ended April 

 20, 1923. 



ATTENDANCE AT SALEM INDIAN TRAINING SCHOOL, CHEilA^VA, OUEG. 



Six native children of St. Paul Island — Tatiana Krukoff, Kleo- 

 patra Krukoff, Mariamna Merculieff, Gavriel Kochergin, Auxenty 

 Stepetin, and Nicolai Stepetin — left the island on the U. S. S. Gold 

 Star on June 2 en route for the Salem Indian Training School at 

 Chemawa, Oreg. One of these, Nicolai Stepetin, had previously 

 been in attendance at the school. Two other native children of St. 

 Paul Island, Audrey Rukovishnikoff and Dosofey Merculieff, left 

 St. Paul Island on the Coast Guard cutter Haida in September to 

 enter the school. Serge Shaishnikoff, also of St. Paul Island, who 

 entered the school in 1922, remained there throughout the year. 

 At the end of the year all the above nine were in attendance at the 

 school. 



SAVINGS ACCOUNTS 



Certain of the Pribilof Island natives have personal funds in the 

 custody of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries. Through 

 the year 1923 these funds were kept on deposit with the Washington 

 Loan and Trust Co., Washington, D. C, and interest was paid at the 

 rate of 3 per cent per annum, calculated on monthly balances. One 

 new account was opened during the year. A summary of the ac- 

 counts as a whole for the year 1923 is shown in the statement that 

 follows : 



Balance on hand .Tan. 1. 1923 



Interest earned from .Tan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1923. 

 Denosited by native.s in 1923 



Withdrawn by natives in 1923- 



-.$11, S3.3. 94 



350. .')4 



88. 76 



12, 273. 24 

 484. 73 



Balance on hand, Dec. 31, 1923 11, 788. .51 



An itemized statement of the account showing the individual bal- 

 ances of the natives follows : 



Pribilof Islands natives" savings accounts in custody of United States Com- 

 missioner of Fisheries, as trustee, December 31, 1923 



St. 



St. Paul Island — Continued. 



Krukoff. Ekateriua $130.35 



Krukoff, luleta ' 68. 75 



Mandregan, Alexandra 



M IT. 13 



Melovidov, Alfey 47.08 



Melovidov, Anton 3. 98 



Melovidov, losef 47.08 



Merculieff, Agafia 42.19 



Merculieff, Dosofey___ 42. 19 



- Not living on islands in 1923. 



