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

1. Name of your Sub-District? No Eleven Harris and Montgomery Counties

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 5 Day? 0 Night? 0 Sabbath?

3. Location of Schools? Four in Houston One in Harrisburg

4. Whole number of Teachers? 2 White? 3 Colored?

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Henry Maddwin H. Reynolds M. ORegan and A D Gaultir "Houston" Teacher at Harrisburg failed to Report Name Unknown

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 6 Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned? All Churches Owned by Col. People Baptist Church hired by Bureau

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 1 Day? 0 Night? 0 Sabbath?

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 1 Where? Houston

9.  Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? Harrisburg and Spring Branch and Lynchburg, "Harris County" Montgomery and Danville Montgomery County

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such schools? Not known Impossible to form an estimate

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Not Enough to Support a Teacher 

12.  What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or State government? I have never urged the matter upon the Civil Authorities for the Reason that they have no Interest in it  Freedmen are two poor to Support their own Schools

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?  Do not think it practicable

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? Teachers would have to be supported and School Houses furnished

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and poor Whites? Perfectly Indifferent

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District?    In what way could they be carried on? Night Schools have been attempted but have now been Suspended because of negligence or Indifference on the Freed people themselves

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? A School might be Established in this City for poor Whites but they will not attend School with Colored Children

19. How long will northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? It is Impossible to form an Opinion on this matter 

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.

M E. Davis
Sub-Asst. Com. Bureau R. F. & A. L.