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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, State of Texas in charge of M. E. Davis 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? Eleventh
2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 4 Day? 0  Night? - Sabbath?
3. Location of Schools? Houston

4. Whole number of Teachers? 2. White? 2. Colored?
5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? [[?]]G. Madison W. Reynolds A. DeGautier O Reagan. Houston Texas
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned? The Churches owned by Colored people Baptist. Church Land 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? Where?
9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? Harrisburg ferry Branch Lynchburg Harris County Montgomery and Danville Montgomery County
10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such schools? Not Know 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 take no Interest In it  Freedmen are too 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 Supplied and School houses furnished
16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and poor Whites? Its pretty Indifferent.
17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? In what way could they be carried on? Night Schools have attempted but have been Suspended because of Negligence and Indifference of 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? Until the State is Thoroughly Reconstructed
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.

Transcription Notes:
12/13/20: Most handwritten answers still need transcribed.