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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 James R Smith Agt 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? Sandersville

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

3. Location of Schools?   Sandersville

4. Whole number of Teachers? 6. White? 0  Colored? 6

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Rev Jerry Brown - 5 of the teachers only teach on Sabbath

6. Whole number of School-Houses for Freedmen in your District? 2
Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? It is an old church all the lights out - owned by Sandersville M E Church could be bought for one hundred dollars & removed to lot owned by freedmen.

7. Number of your visits to Schools?  0
Day?  0. Night? 0  Sabbath? 2

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? In the Davisboro Hebron & Oconee districts [[Strikethrough]]schools[[/Strikethrough]] & Riddleville Schools might be located  convenient to larger numbers of freed children 

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? 600 to 800

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Perhaps 1/3 of amt of tuition

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? Little this lst month - No opportunity offering to do anything

13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? at least 8 or 10

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? Do no think it could be done - It could not be done even to educate the whites

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? To the amt of at least  2/3 of the expenses of teaching

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? As favorable as could be desired - but the impoverishment of the people incident to the war the general indisposition to pay old debts however just - The Homestead Law &c - The Engrossing thought of the people is "What they shall Eat, drink & wear" 

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes
In what way could they be carried on? If the teach would teach for nothing & find himself

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Nothing unless it will build the school houses needed - If we had these teachers would not be wanting - Though the freedmen cannot pay for the best talent

19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? Until we recover in part from the impoverishment & demoralization of the war & until the State makes provision for the education of the poor

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.

James R Smith
Agt [[Strikethrough]]Sub-Asst. Com.[[/Strikethrough]], Bureau R., F., & A.L.