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Sub-Assistant Commissioner on Agents Monthly Report
on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District; State of Texas in charge of Y. N K. Smith Capt. 26th Inf for the month of May 1868 in accordance with order contained in circular no 5. Bureau R.F & A.L

1. Name of your Sub District? 34th

2. Whole number of Refugees or Freedmen Schools in the District? 5 Day 5 Night 0 Sabbath 10

3. Location of Schools? Marshal Harrison 60 Jefferson Hamon 60

4. Whole number of Teachers? 5 White 2 Colored 3

5. Names and post office address of Day-School Teachers? Messrs Clauson and Priei Jefferson [[?]] Massey Caroline Poe Coleman Clark (Col) Marshall Texas

6. Whole number of School houses for Freedmen in your District? 3 Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? Condition poor. Capacity about 75 each. Value $700 each owned by J. Lang Caroline Poe and Thomas Ward

7. Number of your visits to Schools? I visit the Schools weekly. 

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? None. 

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? Henderson Ruelt Co. Carthage Panola Co. Gilmen Upshun Co. 

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? Five hundred

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen for school purposes , in each destitute neighborhood? The freedpeople are unable to raise any funds in this Sub-District owing to the short crops last year.

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education or the Sate government

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? No

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