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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 Hiram
Clark S. A. C. for the Month of October 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.]

1. Name of your Sub- District? Seventh Sub. District

2. Whole number of Refugee of Freedmen's Schools in the District? 3 Day? 1 Night? 1 Sabbath? 

3. Location of Schools? Two Schools located in Victoria and one three miles from Victoria on the Scott Plantation

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

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Louis Brown and Mrs Sebrina Kellebrant and B.S. Morse. Victoria Victoria Co Texas

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? 1 Day? 1 Night? 1 Sabbath? 

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 0 Where? 

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? Schools ought to be organized with towns of Golead and Clinton. 

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

11. Amount which would 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 board of education, or State government? 
Every effort within my power

13. Whole number of additional School- Houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? being built but one is needed and that is

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? Doubtful

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? Public sentiment is against the education of the Freedmen. 

17. Are Night- Schools for Adults 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)? 

19. How long will northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? 

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. 

Hiram Clark
Sub- Asst. Com. Bureau R. F. & A. L.