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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 of Macon, State of Georgia in charge of N. Sellers Hill, S. A. Comm. 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? Macon, Ga.

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 30
Day? 16 
Night? 3
Sabbath? 11 

3. Location of Schools?   

4. Whole number of Teachers? 104 
White? —
Colored? —

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? 
A. S. Woodruff and Lewis Williams, Macon. Ga.
A.M.A. teachers, Macon. Ga.
Rev Jerry Brown, Sandersville Ga.
George Ormond, Perry. Ga.
Addie Wallace Fort Valley, Ga.

6. Whole number of School-Houses for Freedmen in your District? —
Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? —

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

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? —
Where? —

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? There are several places in this Dist where schools might be organized and where none are now held. 

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? Cannot say.

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? The amount would be small in comparison to the number to be educated, but it is impossible to form an estimate. 

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? Advising the freedmen to form Educational Societies

13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? —

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

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? To almost the whole extent.

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? By paying the teachers from the Bureau fund. 

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? A great deal

19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? For some time to come. until the people see the necessity of educating them, and establishing free schools.

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.

N. Sellers Hill
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.