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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 Nesbit B. 
Jenkins for the Month of December in 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? Wharton and Matagorda

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

3. Location of Schools? One School located on the Dennis Plantation about one (1) mile from Wharton 

4. Whole number of Teachers? ~ White? 1 Colored? Teacher

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Mrs Harriet Smith
Wharton Wharton Co Texas

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned?
In my district there is one school house in good condition owned by freedmen and capable of containing some Sixty scholars

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 1 Day? ~ Night? ~ 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? On Canes, at Wharton & near the Williams place between Egypt & Wharton are desirable locations for day schools and schools might be organized at these places if teachers can be furnished, nothing but temporary and unavailable amounts could raised by the freed people of these neighborhoods 

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, boards of education, or State government?

13. Whole number of additional School-Houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District. Three more are wanted

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry you on schools therein?
I do not think so with much success or that a School Committee however pledged would carry the schools on long help from without would be needed to assist in freed people in the building or renting of schoolhouses & in paying teachers 

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?

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Not much

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 for your District? I am of opinion that such aid will be necessary until they can have access to Free Schools

I hereby certify, on honor, that I have given personal attention to the matters herein [?], and that the answers given are, according to my best knowledge and belief, correct.

Nesbit B. Jenkins
Sub-Asst. Com. Bureau R. F. & A. L. 

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