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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 23d in charge of [[J.H. Baker?]] for the Month of August 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.] 1. Name of your Sub-District? Twenty Third 2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 4 Day? 4 Night? 0 Sabbath? 3. Location of Schools? Lockhart Springs Creek. [[Prairedea San Meri__?]] 4. Whole number of Teachers? 1 White? 1 Colored? -- 5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? [[Hinny French??]] Lockhart Texas Griffin Springs Lockhart Texas, Miss Mary Patterson = Daughters, [[Prairie??]] Texas, Jacob Glenn San [[?]] Texas 6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 5 Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned? The School house at Lockhart is [[around??]] by the freed people. Condition not poor. Capacity 50 Scholars. Value 100$. School [[??]]. Two story [[?]] building. [[?]] the freed people for [[?]] 7. Number of your visits to the Schools? [[8?]] Day? 2 Night? -- Sabbath?-- 8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? Where? none held expressly for that. [[?]] 9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? a half day or places in [[20??]] district when Schools of 50 Scholars could be or [[?]] after cotton picking is through with. 10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? around [[?]] 11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? from 15$ to 20$ for [[month??]] 12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? I am incourageing School on all occasions, advising parents to exact [[?]] = class to [[?]] their children, bords of [[?]] are elected by [[patrons?]]. The State government is a [[dead letter??]] so far as education is concerned. 13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? a half dozen 14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? I could not. (crossed out) 15$ per month from the [[?]] (crossed out) 15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? The freed people could manage to get [[her?]] The [[freed?]] helper [[could?]] manage to get [[?]] that [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] in [[?]] and [[?]]. I [[?]] [[?]] [[?]] is [[to?]] [[?]] by [[?]] [[that?]] 16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? The public sentiment as to the Education of the freedpeople is [[?]] letter [[?]] But [[?]] Sentiment is [[?]] or white teachers no objection is [[?]] to the Education of Whites it [[?]] how [[?]] 17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? In what way could they be carried on? Night School in [[?]] 18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? By [[?]], to assist in [[?]] teacher [[?]] School [[?]] 19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? [[God Knows?]] 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. J.H. [[?]] Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R.,F.,&A.L.
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