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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 Alex B Caggishall[[guess]] for the month of July 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.]

1. Name of your Sub-District?  Austin County Texas

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District?  None  Day?  None  Night?  None Sabbath?

3. Location of Schools?

4. Whole number of Teachers? None White? None 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?  None

7. Number of your visits to Schools? - Day? - 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?

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

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood?  At present but very little, but I have no doubt has in the fall a good num

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, board of education, or State government?  I endeavored to raise a School when I first came here, for a Mo.  Gen Webber, but I failed on account of the freedmen not being able to support one [[?]]

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

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

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases?  I think none

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and poor Whites?  Good as far as I can learn

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District?  No  In what way could they be carried on?

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

19. How long will northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?  I believe that as soon as the freedmen begin to realize something from their labor of the year they will be able to maintain a large school without help.

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.

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

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