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[Ed. Form, No. 4.]

Sub-Assistant Commissioner's (Or Agent's) Monthly Report
on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District, State of Texas in charge of[[Ancher?]] for the Month of May 1868, [in accordance with order in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F.,& A.L.]

1. Name of you Sub-District? 1st Sub Dist., State of Texas. 

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? [[?]] Day? [[?]] Night? Sabbath? [[?]]

3. Location of Schools? Basement[[?]] Jefferson County. 
For answers to balance of questions on this Report. attention is invited to any Report for July 1868. as then nothing needs to note, since that time. 

4. Whole number of Teachers? White? Colored? 

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? 

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? 

7. Number of your visits to Schools? Day? Night? Sabbath? 

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? Where? 

9. Number of names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? 

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

11. Amount which would be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? 

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

13. Whole number of additional School houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in you Sub-District? 

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? 

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? 

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites> 

17. Are Night Schools for Adults needed in your District?   
In what way could they be carried on? 

18. What more can this Bureau do for the schooling the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? 

19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refuge Schools of your District? 

I hereby certify, on honor, that I have given personal attention to the matters herein names, and that the answers given are, according to my best knowledge and belief, correct. 

J. Tharcher [[?]]
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., &A.L. 

Transcription Notes:
For the second question, "Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District," on this document, how are markings after each word {Day, night, etc.) supposed to be transcribed?