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[ED. FORM, NO. 4.]

Asst = SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER'S (OR
on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District, State of Louisiana in charge of Christian Rush A.S.A.C. for the Month of February 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? Concordia Parish 6 Sub. District
2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the [[strikethrough]] District [[/strikethrough]] Parish 1 Day? 1 Night? 0 Sabbath? 0
3. Location of Schools? Vidalia La.
4. Whole number of Teachers? 1 White? 0 Colored? 1
5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Vidalia La.
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your [[strikethrough]] District [[/strikethrough]] Parish? 3 Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned?
7. Number of your visits to Schools? 2 Day? 2 Night? 0 Sabbath? 0 
8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 0 Where? 0
9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? 1 at Geo W. Green's Plantation A school will be opened at this place on or about the 20" March.
10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? about 40
11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedman, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Nothing.
12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? Trying to make the Freedmen understand the benefits of an education, and appropriating a small portion of their earnings for the education of their children
13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedman, 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? Could not.
15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? To the full amount required 
16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? Generally opposed to it.
17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes In what way could they be carried on? By the Bureau paying the expenses
18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Much can be done with means i.e. money
19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? Until the country is more prosperous

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. 

Christian Rush.
Sub-Asst, Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.

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