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[ED. FORM, NO. 4.]

SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER'S OR (OR AGENT'S) MONTHLY REPORT
on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District, State of Texas, in charge of W.G. Kirkman, for the Month of March, 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1.Name of your Sub-District?  Fifty Eighth, (58th)

2.Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 1  Day?__  Night" 1  Sabbath?__

3.Location of Schools?  One Shool (House,) 1 Church, situated 3 1/2 miles North West of Myrtle Springs. (Myrtle Springs is eleven miles North East of Boston located on 2 acres of ground, & valid - and vested in colored trustees, the ground lying on the Edge of the Red River bottom (in the hills) one mile from the River.

4. Whole number of Teachers? __  White? 1  Colored?__

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers?  Forrest Hooks (col'd)
Care O.S.A com'r &c  Boston. Bowie Co Texas,

6. Whole number of School houses for Freedmen in your District? 1  Their condition, capacity value, and by whom owned? The building is completed all but ceiling, inside, and glass in windows. The house is seated to hold about 150 persons - has desk, seats (somewhat similar to those in northern schools also has a pulpit. owned by the col'd people - value, about $500.00. Work done by the col'd people.

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 0 Day? 0 Night? 0 Sabbath? __

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 0  Where? Owing to the loss that would have occured to planters who have been appearing to get their Contracts, "approved," and to an account to my horse - I have made no visits to schools during the month.

9. Number and names of places, now destitute in which Day-Schools might be organized? There should be three (3) schools, (buildings) in this county - one at "Boston", one at "DeKalb",-or at "Nicker Jack", and one in No Eastern part of county, say near "Mooresville".

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? Near two hundred - 100 Boston, and 50 at each of the other places.

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? The school near Boston can probably be build wholy by them (especially if I could assure them that a teacher would be forthcoming) very little could be raised at other points.

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? I have a school successfully opperating at Myrtle Springs - have forwarded a "contract" to Dist Hd Qtrs "for the completion of house at point - just valued for the sum of $250.00 and hoping to be able to get a school at Boston.

13. Whole number of additional Schoolhouses, for Freedmen now wanted in your Sub-District? Three in Bowie County (I am not able to Report as to Davis County.)

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? I am confident I could, (I have a committee at Myrtle Springs) especially at Boston.

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? Please refer to above Par's 11 and 12, The amount would be regulated by the cost of the buildings- The land would be donated at Boston, "Teachers would be wanted".

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? There is no particular opposition, against education, known to me at the present time. 

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes. In what way could they be carried on? The trouble would be in being disturbed, or broken up (nights)

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? chiefly by furnishing good-moral, Teachers and a judicious expenditure of money , if possible. 

19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? "I cannot state" probably until schools have been permanently established and sufficiently apperand to show their entire practicability and until they are educated to a point that they can carry on schools, successfully by teachers from their own color.

I hereby certify, on honor, that I have given personal attention to the matters herein named, and that the answers given are, according to my best knowledge and belief, correct. 

W.G. Kirkman
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.