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OFFICE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS FOR FREEDMEN AND REFUGEES
State of Texas

The observance of the following
REGULATIONS
Is enjoined on the Teachers of the Freedmen of Texas:

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

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

3. A regular order of School Exercises will 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. 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 instructions, 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 the permission of the Superintendent.

9. A daily register of attendance will be kept, and at the close of each month the Teacher will furnish this office with a Monthly Report, tabular forms for which are herewith given.

10. This Report is incomplete unless to each question an exact or approximate answer is given, and unless each blank is filled by a number, or cypher.

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