Viewing page 264 of 296

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States  [[/stamp]]

Sub-District of Mobile, 
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Mobile, Ala. Nov 5th, 1868

Mr R.D. Harper
Supt of Education
Bureau R.F. & A.L. 
Montgomery. Ala.

Sir
I have the honor to return herewith my "Monthly Report of Schools" for October 1868, corrected as required. When first transmitted I omitted to account for the schools in operation in "Emerson Institute" for the reason that I was under the impression that it was under the exclusive control of the A.M.S. Society and therefore not reported by this Office. In fact until the return of my Report, I thought I was to embrace in my monthly exhibit of schools, only those for which the Bureau was paying Rent, and simply to note the number of others opposite the questions at the bottom of