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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 No 86, State of Texas in charge of Charles Haughan for the Month of August 1868. [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau of Refugees, Freedman and Abandoned Lands.]

1. Name of your Sub-District ? 36th

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 5 day? 5 Night ? == Sabbath? ==

3. Location of Schools? two in Waco, one at Rock Dam one at Pond Creek and one on White Rock Creek

4. Whole number of Teachers? 5 White? 4 Colored? 1

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Joseph Moore Pond Creek Falls County Wm H Adams Rock Dam Falls Co. D F Davis Waco Tex, Wm E. Morton Waco Chas H King Waco

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 1 Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned? four, condition good, capacity for 75, value $350, owned by f.m.

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 3 Day? 3 Night? =

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? two on Maj Downs' Plantation one at Bosqueville, one in east Waco

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? 100.

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Enough to pay the teacher

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or State government? I have made arrangements to start the schools at the places mentioned

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? I think I can now.

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? A general superintendence 

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and poor Whites? The sentiment is in favor now on account of political advantages

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? yes In What way could they be carried on? They can not be carried on at this time of year

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Send good teachers who are needed

19. How long will northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? The Citizens are doing better now, I think for political purposes. At any other time I would say until the present generation of Southern die.

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.

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

Transcription Notes:
Most of the [[?]] are names that I can not figure out