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[ED. FORM, NO. 4.]

Asst=SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER'S (OR AGENT'S) MONTHLY REPORT
on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District, State of La in charge of ________ for the Month of Febry 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? "Avoyelles"

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 3 Day? 3 Night?  Sabbath? 

3. Location of Schools?
Marksville
Hydropolis
Holmesville

4. Whole number of Teachers? 3 White? 1 Colored? 2

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers?
A Hitten  Holmesville La
Miss Tassin } Marksville La

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District?     Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned?
In Marksville. Mrs. Plumel  Hydropolis & Holmesville
Houses furnished & used are ordinary "Quarters"

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 3 Day? 3 Night?  Sabbath? 

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 1 Where? Marksville

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? [[strikethrough]] none, where a teacher can be supported [[/strikethrough]] Mansura & Miroville [[Moreauville?]]

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

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood?
The freedmen can pay comparatively nothing

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?

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? not without money

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? for the present the total amount of expenses

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites?
The People (white) take but little interest in educational matters. The Poor whites, especially. The freed manifest more interest in the matter

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes In what way could they be carried on? by a teacher working without pay sofaras the People here are concerned

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Schools of your District? Schools can only be established by furnishing the entire expenses

19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? at least until one good crop is raised—

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. 

Amos S. Collins
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R.,F.,&A.L.

Transcription Notes:
1) Mansura verified place name; maybe "Miroville" as misspelling of Moreauville (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoyelles_Parish,_Louisiana); 2) Amos S. Collins per this helpful resource: https://sova.si.edu/record/NMAAHC.FB.M1905 ; 3) I've double-spaced between numbered entries for readability -- Beth