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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 Hiram Clark Agt. for the Month of June 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? 16th Sub District

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 1 Day? 1 Night? 1 Sabbath?

3.Location of Schools? Victoria Victoria County Texas

4. Whole number of Teachers? 1 White? Colored?

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

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? 1 Day? 1 Night? 1 Sabbath?

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

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? One. Clinton DeWitt County Texas

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? From 40 to 50

11. Amount which would probably 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 State government?

13. Whole number of additional School-Houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District. One

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

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

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of Freedmen and poor Whites? Public sentiment is very much against the education of the Blacks.

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your district? Yes. In what way could they be carried on? In connection with a Day School only.

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

19. How long will northern charitable aid be needed to Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? AS long as they have Schools

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.

Hiram Clark
Sub-Asst Com. Bureau R.F. & A.L.