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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 Lt. Henry Norton 17th Infty for the Month of July 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District?
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 of 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 education 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?
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 your 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 educating the children of Refugees (and Poor Whites)?
19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugees Schools of your District?

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

Henry Norton
1st Lt. 17 Infty Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R.,F., & A.L.

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School has been adjourned during the past month and will not go into session until August 31st 1868
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