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ED. Form, No. 4.

SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONERS (OR AGENTS) MONTHLY REPORT
on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in 29th Sub-District, Sate of Texas in charge of Bvt Major
C. Mauck for the Month of December 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular
No. 5, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? 29th S. D State of Texas
2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen’s Schools in the District? 4 Day? 2 Night? 1 Sabbath? 1
3. Location of Schools? at Austin, Travis County, Texas

4. Whole number of Teachers? 2 White? 1 Colored? 1
5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Mr Joseph Bank (W) & Mrs Amanda Robinson
(Col) Austin, Travis County Texas
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 4 Their Condition, capacity, value and by whom owned? In Austin
1st Bureau School house capacity 200 2nd Foundry Building owned by State of Texas capacity 200
3rd Church Col People of Austin, Capacity 500, In Georgetowntown Church cold people of Georgetown Capacity 100
7. Number of your visits to Schools? 2 Day? 2 Night? — Sabbath? —
8. Number of educational meeting held by you during the month? — Where? —
9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? [[near the Parsons Seminary?]] on
[[Wilbayer?]], Circleville, Webberville & on many of the larger plantations
10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? About 40 in each School
11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Unknown

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, board of education, or State government? Efforts are
being made to induce planters to organize Schools on their plantations and the colored
people both parents and children are urged to support all Schools
13. Whole number of additional School-Houses for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District. Circleville, [[Parsons Seminary?]]
14. Could you organize your Sub-Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? Probably

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? Where the Teachers are colored and the School
House free, the Schools would be self supporting
16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and poor Whites? The feeling is hostile to the education
Of the freedmen, but this feeling is gradually decreasing—No assistance
is giving to poor white men to educate their families
17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes. In what way could they be carried on? No
Suggestions.  
18. What more can this Bureau do for education the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? It could establish a School for refugees & poor whites in Austin
19. How long will northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? I think the only aid necessary is in Erecting School Houses

I hereby certify, on honour, 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.
C Mauck
Captain 4th Cav & Bvt. Major Usa
Sub-Asst. Com. Bureau R. F. & A. L.               

    

   
  
 


            

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