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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 J.M. Hoag Bt Capt USA 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? Sub District of Savannah

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

3. Location of Schools? Schools are unusually late in opening this Fall  Several are to open Monday Nov. 2nd

4. Whole number of Teachers? =
White? =
Colored? =

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? 

6. Whole number of School-Houses for Freedmen in your District? 1
Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? At Savannah Ga By Bureau at a cost of about $11000. Have a church at Darien McIntosh Co. and at Monteith Chatham Co. under repairs by Bureau for schools. There are several churches in city and elsewhere where schools will be opened soon

7. Number of your visits to Schools? - 
Day?  -
Night? -
Sabbath? -

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 4
Where? Davies; Monteith; White Bluffs and Ogeechee

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? [[inassessable?]], provided an outside support could be obtained

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

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? In some places, nothing; while in others a half support for needed schools

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? Am laboring School meetings among people, and corresponding with A.M.A. for teachers with probable success.- also with American Tract Society, for books

13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? [[?]] could be used to advantage but churches &c now used make demand less urgent.

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? No, not without outside aid

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? From half to an entire support.

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? Indifferent

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? yes
In what way could they be carried on? Many will be opened with winter schools, and more could be carried on by furnishing support.

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Continue its present work of repairing churches &c for school purposes and aid in payment of teachers.

19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? Until a regular system of free schools is organized and sustained by proper legislation.

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.

J. Murray Hoag
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.
Bt. Cap't. U.S. Army.