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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.J. Knox S.A.C. for the Month of November 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? 
Athens
2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 6
Day?  5
Night?  1
Sabbath? 4

3. Location of Schools?  Athens, Watkinsville, Jefferson, Monroe & Elberton

4. Whole number of Teachers? 8
White? 5
Colored? 3

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? F.A. Santell, Mary E. Dyer, Eliza C. Ayer & Miss Vannest Athens Ga. Cary J. Hill Monroe, Daniel Mahoney Watkinsville. No reports recd from teachers at Jefferson and Elberton.

6. Whole number of School-Houses for Freedmen in your District? 7
Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? Only one respectable school building in my Dist It is located Athens - Cost $6147, owned by the Freedmens Bureau and capable of receiving 250 students. The Col'd people own inferior building at Carnesville, Monroe, Jefferson and Lawrenceville - miserable shanties as a general thing and will hold thirty or forty.

7. Number of your visits to Schools?  4
Day?  4
Night? 1
Sabbath? 1

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? two
Where? At "Knox's School" and office Sub Asst. Commissioner.

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? Lexington, Lawrenceville Clarksville, Gainsville, Danielsville, Carnesville.

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? About forty at each.

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? From ten to Fifteen dollars per month.

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? 
The State Govt is yet a blank so far as the Education of the Cold People are concerned. I have repeatedly almost daily urged the Cold People to take hold of the matter themselves giving them special instruction how to commence and informed them of the assistance they could receive from the Peabody Fund in the way of books and money.
13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? Four One at Clarksville, Gainsville, Danielsville and Lexington.

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein?
Yes, but without assistance after being organized it would not last. The great necessity of good enterprising teachers - Cold teachers raised in the South lack energy & enterprise.
15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? 

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? 
Public sentiment in my Dist so far as I have been able to learn is against the education of poor whites and Col'd people too for white citizens will neither sell or rent buildings for school purposes — Schools once organized have been broken up and the school buildings used as priveys by the whites. A large majority of the whites will not educate or teach the cold people themselves and do not want anyone else to do it.

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes
In what way could they be carried on? By having teachers with some enterprise to take charge of them. We have a good school if this character at Athens and at other places they could be almost self supporting.    

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Have the Supt's of Education insist of the Legislature of Ga passing an act compelling poor whites to go to school after a Free School system shall have been established

19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? Until a sufficient number of cold people are prepared to teach and take the places of those now engaged in the work. I should think the aid now rendered would be required at least three years longer — possibly five. 

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.

Jno. J Knox
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.

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