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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 J.L. Randall for the Month of December 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No., Bureau R., F.,& A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? The 28th Sub. District.

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? - Day? - Night? - Sabbath?- None now in operation.

3. Location of Schools? Schools have been in operation as follows: At E. Hearne's Plantation H.R. Hearne's Plantation. T.A. Johnson's Plantation. Mrs. Mitchell's Plantation. Owensville, Judge Hodge's Plantation, Dr. Hammonds' Plantation, all in Robertson Co.: and 1 at Mr. Goodwin's Plantation Milam Co.

4. Whole number of Teachers? 8 White? 4 Colored? 4

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers?
white } 
L. Armstrong, Sutton's Station, Robertson Co.
Geo. Bellah, Sutton's Station, Robertson Co.
Cornelius Nolan Sterling, Robertson Co.
Mrs. Mason, Calvert, Robertson Co.
(care of Dr. Hammond

col'd }
Emanuel Hammit, Sutton's Station, Robertson Co.
Rich. Perry Owensville, Robertson Co.
Allen Morrison Owensville Robertson Co.
Monk Jackson, Port Sullivan Milam Co.

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? [blank] Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? The buildings used for freedmen's Schools, are of but little value, and belong to the owener's of the land they are built upon.

7. Number of your visits to Schools? - Day? - Night? - 

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? All the places heretofore named & many others.

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? 
About 1000 pupils.

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? 
The freedmen are able this year to send their children to school, but I doubt whether they will be willing to do so.

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government?

13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? 
Same as in previous Report

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

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? 
Same as in previous Report.

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? 
Same as in previous Report.

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? In what way could they be carried on? 
Same as in previous Report.

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? 
Same as in previous Report.

19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?
Same as in previous Report

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.
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J.S. Randall
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.
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