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[[preprinted]] Head Quarters, Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, District of Maryland and Delaware, No. 30 Holliday Street, ^[[Office of Supt of Schools,]] Baltimore, Md. ^[[Aug. 12th]] 186^[[8]]. [[/preprinted]] General: - Permit me, for your information, to furnish to you the following figures:- No. of Pupils enrolled and accounted for in Maryland- 1867 |- December - |4539 + 500 = 5.039.| 1868 |- Jan. - |5240 + 510 = 5.750.| |Feb. - |5173 + 648 = 5.821.| |March - |4898 + 375 = 5.273 =|Larger Pupils drawn off to work in the fields. |April - |3947 + 287 = 4.234. = Work in the fields and Strawberry-Picking. |May - |3869 + 250 = 4.119.| |June - |3349 + 450 = 3.797 = |Harvesting. |July - |1951 + 0 = 1.951 = | Vacation. Very Resp'y, [[signature]] Wm. Howard Day, [[/signature]] Supt. of Schools, Bur. R. F. & A. L, Dist. of Md. & Del. Brig. Gen. C. H. Howard, } Washington, } D.C. }