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[ED. FORM, No 4]
SUE-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER'S (OR AGENT'S) MONTHLY REPORT
on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District, State of Texas in charge of Bvt  Lt Col Geo  H leraur for the month of October 1868,[in accordance with order contained in Circulur No. 5, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned lands.]
1. Name of your Sub-District? Third
2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedman's Schools in the District? 2 DAY? 2 Night? check mark Sabbath? check mark
3. Location of Schools: Galveston Texas
4. Whole number of Teachers? 2 White? check mark Colored? 2
5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Miss O D ELWARD Galveston
Daniel Gregory Galveston 
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 2 Their condition, capacity, value by whom owned? good one by Baptist church and by M E Church
7. Number of your visits to Schools?  Day?  Night?  Sabbath?
8. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized?
10.Number of pupils(estimated) who would attend such Schools?
11. Amount which probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood?
12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or State government?
13. Whole number of additional School-Houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District.
14. Could you organized your Sub-District into School-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein?
Not made the attempt
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 Freedman and poor Whites?
17. Are Night-Schools for Adult needed in your District:  In what way could they be carried on ?
18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of refugees (or Poor Whites)
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.
Geo H leraur [
Sub-Asst. Com. Bureau R.F. & A.L.
Brvt LT Col USA