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

1. Name of your Sub-District? Bexar Comal Medina Alscona Bandera Kenall cours

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

3. Location of Schools? San Antonio City. Head of Bloom street

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

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Miss A. M. Nahar San Antonio city

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 and name of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? New Braunsfels 

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? About 75 if teached properly

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Funds might be raised if attended to

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or State government?
I meet with but little support by the freedpeople in my efforts, to arouse them for the purpose of building school houses.

13. Whole number of additional School-Houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District. 1 at New Braunsfels, and in every county of the Sub District

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein?
It would not be impossible

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? The people do not take much interest in the matter

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District?   In what way could they be carried on?
They are needed, but the freedpeople would not want to provide for lights or teachers themselfes.

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? Untill the freedpeople can earn enough, to pay teachers and  support schools.

I herby 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. 
[[?]] Cefone
Sub-Asst. Com. Bureau R. F. & A. L.