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198 Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and A.L. Head Quarters Asst. Comr. D.C. Washington, April 30th, 1868. [[underlined]] Coakley Miss Mary A. C. [[/underlined]] Woodville, Prince George Co. Md. [[underlined]] Mr. Ballantyne [[/underlined]] will send you the books on Saturday, with a bill of the same. You will sell them so as to cover the cost. I shall hold you responsible for them and take the pay out of your salary. You will have to sell at his (Ballantyne's) price and also include the expense of getting them by stage. Send report of your school for the part of this month which you have taught, immediately. I hope you will use a little more care about your writing: you spell some words wrong. Very Respectfully Yours, [[signature]] John Kimball [[/signature]] Supt. of Education. [[line across page]] 199 Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and A.L. Head Quarters Asst. Comr. D.C. Washington, May 1st, 1868. [[underlined]] Eldridge Bvt. Maj. Stuart. [[/underlined]] A.A.A. Genl. Major: I have the honor to present the following report of the work of Education in this Department for the month of April. The Bureau has paid Salaries of Supt. and Asst. Supt. of Education | $591.32 Rent of School Houses | 70.00 for School House at Nottingham, Prince George Co. Md. | 84.06 " [[ditto for for]] Swamp Chapel School House, Ann Arundel Co. " [[ditto for Md.]] | 303.11 " [[ditto for for]] School House at Brooks Hollow, West Va. [[ditto for Md.]] | 300.00 Amount for Educational Schools | $1348.49 for [[underlined]] Miss S. Walker's [[/underlined]] Industrial School Building | 255.75 " [[ditto for for]] material used in industrial schools | 1308.63 " [[ditto for for]] cutting and making garments | 1560.38 Amount for Industrial Schools | $3124.76 Total | $4473.25 Industrial Schools Six (6) Industrial Schools are in operation. They report an aggregate of four hundred and eighty-four (484) pupils, and [[end page]] [[start page]] the making of forty-four hundred and fifty-two (4452) garments, although some of the teachers include in their reports a considerable amount of unfinished work which was completed during the month. Educational Schools The total number of day and night Schools reported this month is one hundred and twenty-seven (127): one hundred and nine day, and eighteen night: No. of Teachers, one hundred and sixty (160) of whom one hundred and eighteen are white, and forty-two are colored. No. of Scholars, sixty-five hundred and ninety-one (6591). There are also in operation twenty-seven (27) schools not reported, having thirty-two (32) teachers, and eleven hundred and seventy-three (1173) scholars, making the whole number of Schools in this Department one hundred and fifty-four (154): No. of Teachers one hundred and ninety-two (192): No. of Scholars, seventy-seven hundred and sixty-four (7764), showing a decrease of eight hundred and eighty-seven (887) Scholars as compared with report for March. This falling off is owing mainly to the discontinuance of nearly half the night schools, and in some degree to a number of the older pupils being called out to service. Six new Schools were opened this month, at the following places, viz: Upper Marlboro, and Woodville, Prince George Co. Md., Sharpsburg, Washington Co. Md., Frossburg, Alleghany Co. Mod., Shepherdstown, West Va. and Washington County, D.C. Eighteen teachers report an average attendance of 90 per cent, and over. Thirty-nine teachers report that they have organized Temperance societies, with an aggregate of thirteen hundred and eighty-three (1383) members. I have visited Open Run and Piscataway, Prince George Co. Md. during the month. The School House at Open Run is used for meetings on the Sabbath, and I am sorry to record that there has been no day school in the house for some time past. The people are not willing to pay the board of a teacher. I do not expect to be able to start the school again until the beginning of next term. At Piscataway the people were ready, with our help, to put up a school-house on land purchased for that purpose: also those living between Piscataway and Broad Creeks, wanted our help in building a house which could be used both for school and church. I recommended that aid be furnished in those two places, and the recommendation has been approved. I have also visited Sandy Springs and Blue Marsh, Montgomery Co. Md., where good schools are well sustained. At a place about five miles from Sandy Springs, another school is needed. A Mr. [[underlined]] Wadsworth [[/underlined]] has
