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[ED. FORM, No. 4.]

SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER'S (OR AGENT'S) MONTHLY REPORT
on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District, State of Georgia in charge of O.V. Lyon for the Month of October 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]
   
1. Name of your Sub-District? Thomasville (In charge of Brooks Lownds & Berrion Counties)

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 1
Day?  1
Night?  0
Sabbath? 

3. Location of Schools? Valdosta Lounds Co.

4. Whole number of Teachers? 1
White? 0
Colored? 1

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? J.D. Enos, Valdosta Lounds Co,

6. Whole number of School-Houses for Freedmen in your District? 
Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? not finished accommodate 120 scholars - owned by Freedmen

7. Number of your visits to Schools?  1
Day?  1
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? Quitman, Grooversville Tollokas, Ocopilco & O.H. Pennies Plantation

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? 50

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Uncertain from the destitute condition of the freedmen.

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? Am trying to make them self sustaining

13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? five (5)

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? yes.

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? Teachers with salaries paid.

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? Almost without exception the citizens approve

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? yes
In what way could they be carried on? only in Towns & on large Plantations

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Build School Houses & furnish Teachers with salaries paid.

19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? Until the free school system is fully established by the State

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.

O T. Lyon
Agent [[strikethrough]] Sub-Asst. Com., [[/strikethrough]] Bureau R., F., & A.L.

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