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STATE OF ALABAMA,
Bureau Refugees, Freedman and Abandoned Lands,
OFFICE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION,
Montgomery, Ala., June 25, 1868.

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATE [[/stamp]]
CIRCULAR:

To C. C. Burlett Sub-Ass't Commissioner
Bu. R., F. & A. L., at Elyton Alabama.
You are desired to make answer, as accurately as possible, to the following questions and forward the same to the Superintendent of Education at this Office on or before the 20th day of July next.--

1.--How many schools day and night for freedmen are at present organized, and in operation in your district? None

2.--How many additional schools are needed, and at what points? Elyton, Jonesboro, Irondale, Ruhama, Village Springs

3.--How many colored children are there in your district between the ages of 6 and 18 to be educated? Eight Hundred

4.--How many central points are there where schools might be organized, and what their names? Elyton, Jonesboro, Irondale, Ruhama, Village Springs

[[Strikethru]] 6 [[/Strikethru]] 5.--How many teachers will be needed to supply your district for the coming year? One of each of above places

6.--What amount of monthly salary should be paid teachers as a reasonable compensation? Fifty dollars

7.--Are there any places in your district where northern teachers could safely be employed, and sustained by tuition fees? If so, how many and what number of pupils in each? Northern teachers could be safely employed but not wholly supported = five places = fifty scholars each.

8.-- Are there any teachers engaged for the coming year in your district? If so--what their names, by whom employed, and where will they labor? None.

9.--What amount of tuition, if any, will the colored people be able to pay, and what their ability in this regard compared with the same last year? From 1$ to 2$ per Mo.

10.--What number of School Houses in your district? How many more will be needed by the first of October, and at what points? None = one at each place above mentioned.

11.--Can buildings suitable for school purposes be rented? But one or two, if any.