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[Ed. Form, No.4]
SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER'S (OR AGENT'S) MONTHLY REPORT
on Education of Freedmen Refugees in Sub-District, State of Texas in charge of Arthur B Homer for the Month of July 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]
1. Name of your Sub-District 4
2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 3 Day? Night? 1 Sabbath? 3
3. Location of Schools? Columbia Chauncy Prairie Brazoria
4. Whole number of Teachers? 3 White 1 Colored 2
5. Names and post-office address if Day-School Teachers Columbia Mary Davis, Brazoria Walter Womley - Chauncey Prairie John Parker Brazoria Co.
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 1 Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? Log house Capacity 100. Value $50 Frreedmen 
7. Number of your visits to Schools? 5 Day? 5 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? Gulf Prairie  Oyster Creek. ( Cainey Gun @and Plant).
10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? 300.
11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? They would do the work if the rails and lumber for securing and our dues.
12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? My communications apro the subject are at your office. 
13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? 13
14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? No
15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? As stated above. 
16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? in favor of. 
17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes. In what way could they be carried on?  Same as day. 
18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? If you will find one authority to buy lumber Nails tC, and Guarantee payment in 30 days. I can build without any more expense, then 2 whole required consistant teachers. 
19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? When a crop is made. 

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. 
Arthur. B. Homer.
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R.,F.,&A.L.