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SUB- ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER ( OR AGENTS) MONTHLY REPORT
on Education of freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District,State of Texas in charge of Bryson Poster for the Month of April 1868,[in accordance with order contained in Circular No.5, Bureau R.,F.,& A.L.]
1. Name of your Sub-District? 22nd. Sub District of Texas.
2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's schools in the District? 2 Day? 0 Night? 1 Sabbath? 1
3. Location of Schools? Baitrop. Rastrop Co.
4. Whole number of Teachers? 1 White? 0 Colored? 1
5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers?



6.Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 3 Their condition,capacity, value, and by whom owned ? One nearby finished in Bastrop 24 x 44.  One on Piney six miles from Bastrop North half built 18 x 22 + One finished at Williams Mill six miles up the river from Bastrop, size not known. All owned by freedmen.

7.Number of your visits to Schools? 2 Day? 0 Night? 1 Sabbath? 1

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month?  One  Where? Town of Bastrop.

9.  Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized?  One in Bastrop and probably three or four more at different points in the County.

10.  Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools?  From thirty to sixty in each school.

11.  Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood. Impossible to tell.

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government?  I am collecting subscriptions and attending to the erection of the school house now building and endeavoring to organize a school district in the town of Bastrop.

13. Whole number of additional School houses for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District?  At least two more in the County in addition to those already begun or finished.

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into school Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein?  I think I could if assistance was given by the U.S. Government or the State.

15.  To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases?  Half the past cost of the school house and in most cases half the hire of the teachers.

16.  What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites?  The mass of the Whites take very little interest in providing educational priveleges for either white or black.

17.  Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District?  In what way could they be carried on?

18.  What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)?

19.  How long will Norther charitable aid be need for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?  Until State aid is given.

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.

Byron Porter
Sub-Asst. Comm., Bureau R., F., & A.L.