We study the local conserved charges in integrable spin chains of the XYZ type with non-trivial boundary conditions. The general structure of these charges consists of a bulk part, whose density is identical to that of a periodic chain, and a boundary part. In contrast with the periodic case, only charges corresponding to interactions of even number of spins exist for the open chain. Hence, there are half as many charges in the open case as in the closed case. For the open spin- XY chain, we derive the explicit expressions of all the charges. For the open spin- XXX chain, several lowest-order charges are presented and a general method of obtaining the boundary terms is indicated. In contrast with the closed case, the XXX charges cannot be described in terms of a Catalan tree pattern.
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Grabowski et al. (1996) studied this question.