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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 No 36, State of Texas in charge of Charles Haughn for the Month of November 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau of Refugee, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? 36th

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 13 Day? 9 Night? - Sabbath? 4 Three day schools + two Sunday schools broken up this month to in the organization of three day schools prohibited


3. Location of Schools?
Waco 6, Downs' farm 2, Shackelford & Dunklin's, East Waco 1 Andrews farm 2

4. Whole number of Teachers? 9 White? 4 Colored? 5

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? 
D.F. Davis Waco, Alban Hobin Waco,Chas King Waco, Mrs. M.E. Burns Waco, W.W. Hay Waco, S.W. McKairn Waco J.T. Williamson Rock Dam, or Waco, State that ln on Andrews farm Falls County 

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? 5 Day? 5 Night? 2 Sabbath? 0

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? no Where?

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day Schools might be organized?
White Rock, Bosqueville, Rock Dam, Falls County 'Maj' Downs'farm, Gen'l Harrisons formed one at the upper farm it the lower + one in East Waco

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? (150) One hundred & fifty.

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

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, of State government?
I am only trying to have each neighborhood select a board of education who will attend to the educational affairs & see that the teachers are paid

13. Whole number of additional School-Houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District. 
I can not tell, the fm can get along without houses if they can get teachers

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry our school therein?
Yes. 

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?
Public Sentiment is against the education of the free.

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes In what way could they be carried on? They are carried on by the free, in the different neighborhoods generally there on each plantation [[event]] of [[samf]] house [[chahaught]]

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? 
Nothing until they become less antagonistic in [[sfainh]]

19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?
Until the present generation of Southeners 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.

Chas Haughn
Sub-Asst. Com. Bureau R. F. & A. L.