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[ED. FORM, No. 4.]
SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER'S (OR AGENTS) MONTHLY REPORT!
on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District, State of Texas in charge of N H Handlett for the Month of Apl 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? 20#
2. Whole number of Refugee or Freemen's Schools in the District? 0 Day?  Night?   
Sabbath?
3. Location of Schools? Bryan Millican, Navasota, Anderson
4. Whole number of Teachers? 2 White? 2 
Colored? 
5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? CB Foster (fm) Bryan
JW Hendley Millican, J Rinehart Navasota
James Dobson Anderson
6. Whole number of School-house for Freedmen in your District? 4 Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? Same as last months report. The school House at Bryan is unfinished
7. Number of your visits to Schools? 2 
Day?  Night?  Sabbath?
8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? one   Where? Millican
9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? Same as last report with the exception of Bryan
10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? About 100
11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? From five to fifteen dollars
12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? All I can by impressing the freed people of the necessity of educating their children  
13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? Four
14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? Yes
15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? In securing teachers
16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? Not much in favor
17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes In What way would they be carried on?
18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Furnishing teachers
19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? Always

I hereby certify, or 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.

N H Handlett
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R.,F.,&A.L.

Transcription Notes:
not sure if Mavasato is correct because Millican and Bryan are towns in Texas but no current listing of Mavasato. Navasota likely for Mavasato N H Handlett likely for signatures given location of schools