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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 18th Sub-Dist. for the Month of Sept. 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No.5 Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.]
1. Name of your Sub-District? 18th
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 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 educational meetings held by you during the month? Where?
9. Number of names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? Sumpter, Pennington, Hoscom [[good guess?]], and Livingston 
10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? about 200.
11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? cannot estimate.
12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or State government? regard all private effort futile.
13. Whole number of additional School-Houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District. 4 at least.
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 with Gov't. aid and protection.
15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? Sufficient to furnish house and teacher for short time.
16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and poor Whites? the ignorant and illiterate object, the intelligent favor it.
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)? build houses and furnish teachers.
19. How long will northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? until the people are able to supply themselves.
I hereby certify, on honor, that I have given personal attention to the mattes herein named, and that the answers given are, according to my best knowledge and belief, correct.
Charles Schmidt
Sub-Asst. Com. Bureau R.F. & A.L.