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OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS FOR FREEDMEN AND REFUGEES,
STATE OF TEXAS.

The observance of the following

REGULATIONS
Is enjoined on the Teachers of the Freedmen in Texas:

1. The School Hours shall be from 9 A.M. to 2:30 P.M., with half hour's recess at mid-day.

2. The Morning Exercises will commence with either the signing of an appropriate hymn, or prayer, or the reading of the Scriptures.

3. A regular order of School Exercises shall be posted in each School Room.

4. The three studies of primary importance for the Freedmen are reading, writing and arithmetic. Teachers will therefore make these branches most prominent.

5. The Holidays shall be the same as those customary in the White Schools of this State.

6. In the Freedmen's Schools corporal punishment is not required, and will not be permitted. The modes of discipline must not differ from those employed in the best school systems of the North.

7. Night Schools for adults, and Sunday Schools for religious instruction, may be organized by any Teacher. The Night Schools shall be kept in session every week-day evening, except Saturday, from 7 to 9:30 P.M.

8. Until the expenses of these Schools are otherwise defrayed, a tuition fee, not exceeding one dollar and a half per month, may be collected by the Teacher from each pupil attending Day or Night School. No other contributions or collections will be taken by the Teachers without permission of the Superintendent.

9. A daily register of attendance will be kept, and at the close of each month the Teachers will furnish this office with a Monthly Report, tabular forms for which will be given. On the blank page they will state the general progress made, the hindrances, if any encountered, with the reasons and remedies therefor, and, in general, such practical suggestions as shall seem calculated to give fresh impulse and efficiency to their work.

E. M. WHEELOCK,
Superintendent of Schools for Freedmen and Refugees, State of Texas.