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[Ed. Form, No. 4.]

SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISIONER'S (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 April 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L]

1. Name of your Sub-District? Fifty-Eighth.
2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 1. Day? 1. Night? Sabbath? 1.
3. Location of Schools? Bowie, near R. River, and about 3 1/2 miles from Myrtle Springs.
4. Whole number of Teachers? 1. White? Colored? 1.
5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Forrest Hooks (col’d) Care Office of S.a.c.&c
Boston, Bowie Co, Texas.
6. Whole number of School-houses and churches for Freedmen in your District? 1. Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? Hold about 150 or 175. Owned by colored people, title to land rested in colored trustees.
7. Number of your visits to Schools? 0 Day? 0. Night? 0. Sabbath? 0.
8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 0. Where? 0.
9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? x Respy refer to Report for March 1868.
10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? x
11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? x
12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government?
A contract has been let, for completing school & church building at Myrtle, for $250.00 and I trust it may benefit them morially and perminantly by the emprovements.
13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? x
14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? x
15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? x
16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? There is no noticeable, or particular sentiment. I think schools could be successful be started in this district. Buildings called "the academia" at this place, though litigated at present. could be purchased at a low rate, when they are decided in law.
17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes. In what way could they be carried on? x
18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? I think with the aid of about $150.00 a neat and "commodious" school and church could be build near Boslen aid should not be given but in necessity. The land would be donated. The colored people have little money. owing to disasters.
19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?
x
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.