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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 No 36, State of Texas in charge of Charles Haughn 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? No. 36.

2. Whole number of Refugees or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 7 Day? 5 Night? — Sabbath? 2

3. Location of Schools? four at Waco, one at Rock Dam one at Pond Creek & one on Maj Down's Plantation

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

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? D. F. Davis Waco Tex. Wm. C. Morton Waco Tex Wm H. Adams Rock Dam Falls County Tex Green Bynum Waco Tex Joseph Moore Pond Creek Falls County Tex

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 1 Their condition, value and by whom owned? By the fav of the U.S.A in the vicinity of Waco Tex

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 4 Day? 4 Night? — 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? Spring Hill Navaro Co Gates Ville Coryelle County Bosque Ville McLennan Co

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? 225

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Sufficient to pay the teachers

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or State government? I can make a board to pay a teacher $500 in each neighborhood. I am building a schoolhouse at Gates Ville

13. Whole number of additional School-Houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District. Coryelle County Four one at Burquslilla Neighborhood one at Spring Hill one at Gates Ville & one in Billingsly's

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? To build School houses

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and poor Whites? The poor classes of people oppose the education of colored children. The rich favor educating them

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? yes  In what way could they be carried on? They can not be carried on at this time of year, but on almost every plantation old & young are studying nights under the direction of someone of the more educated scholars 

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees or Poor Whites? It will be necessary to do more for the education of the poor whites than for the free.

19. How long will northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? It is impossible to answer this question 

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.

Charles Haughn 
Sub-Asst Com. Bureau R.F. & A. L.

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Most of the hand-written responses seem to be illegible edited: filled in blanks #13 still needs to be transcribed - I attempted to transcribe this one now complete