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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 Schools in [[?]], for the Month May 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? No. 2 [[smudge]]

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

3. Location of Schools? -

4. Whole number of Teachers? White? Colored?

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

6. Whole number of School-houses 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? 2 Where? First at Wallaceville in Ahambria Co. Second at Liberty [[?]] Co.

9. Number and names of places, no destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? Day Schools cannot be organized in this District on the [[?]] of the Freedmen at all, at this time when crops are [[?]]

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? I would say at Liberty thirty five Wallaceville thirty [[?]] At Island[[?]] settlement of Grand [[?]] Forty five, if they had any means of sustaining the schools. 

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? At this time and until crops are gathered there could be nothing raised by the freedmen themselves.

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? I have urged persuaded and talked to the freedmen telling them the nesessity of education, but they all complain of having no means upon which to education themselves and children. I don't know what [[?]]

13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? Not having Schools in operation, I cannot say

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? Had we the facilities to carry on the Schools I support I could. 

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? To the full extent as nothing ca be done within [[?]] [[?]]

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? As to the Poor Whites there is no objection to their being educated but as a general thing the people are opposed to educating the freedmen.

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? yes In what way could they be carried on? By having everything furnished that would be necessary to carry on the same. 

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? I think the above answers will also answer this question.

19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? The present prospects for crops are good and I am in hope it will not needed long

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. 

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