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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 Freedmen of Texas:

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

2. The Morning Exercises will commence with either singing of an appropriate hymn, or Prayers, 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 School the mode of discipline must not differ from those employed in the best school systems of the North.

7. Night School for adults, and Sunday Schools for religious instructions, may be organized by any Teacher. The Night Schools shall be kept in sessions every week-day evening, except Saturday, from 7 to 9:30 P. M.  

8. Until further notice the following schedule of fees for tuition will be adopted by the Schools for Freedmen throughout the State, and can be collected by the Teacher in advance, from each pupil attending Day School:
   When one pupil from a family attends school, fifty (50) cents per month shall be the charge for tuition. When two attend from the same household, seventy-five (75) cents shall be the charge for both. When the number exceeds two, one ($1.00) dollar shall be the charge for all. Orphans, and the children of widows, shall be admitted to school privileges without charge. The tuition fee for Night School will be one Dollar and a half per month. No other 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 the month the Teacher will promptly report in duplicate, sending one copy direct to the Superintendent of the Schools of the State, and forwarding the other to the Sub-Assistant Commissioner, in whose District the School is located.

10. Under the head of "Remarks," the Teacher will state the general progress made by the school during the month; the serious hinderances, if any, encountered; and such practical suggestions as may seem calculated to give impulse to the Educational work.

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.

        J. T. KIRKMAN.
   1st Lient. 26th U. S. Infintry,
Superintendent of Schools for Freedmen and Refugees, State of Texas.

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