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[[7 columned table]] | NAME OF TEACHER | Is Teacher Paid by Bureau? | School - where located | Total Pupils attending day School | Total Pupils attending night School | Total Pupils attending Sunday School | REMARKS | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Henry Gomez | No | Galveston | 50 | 8 | - | | "Give a statement of the official business transacted during the month; its nature and your method of disposing of the same. State your office hours; the number of days absent from office, if any, and reason for the same." Have transacted no business, excepting acting on papers referred to me and a few slight cases of arbitrement. "State the number of Troops at your Post and the necessity for the same; whether or not the freed people would be secure if they were removed; in other words will the civil authorities protect them and give them justice; &c., &c." There are 3 Cos of 17th Infantry. Freedmen would be perfectly with but one company here and this would only be necessary in case of a riot. I [[strikethrough]] have [[/strikethrough]] refer almost every case that comes before me to the Civil authorities who give justice impartially so far as I can ascertain.
Transcription Notes:
arbitrement - the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment;