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[ED. FORM, No. 4.]

SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER'S (OR AGENT'S) MONTHLY REPORT
on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in [[strikethrough]] Sub-District [[/strikethrough] Division, State of Georgia in charge of R. Pallon Agt for the Month of December 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your [[strikethrough]] Sub-District [[/strikethrough]] Division? Cuthbert

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

3. Location of Schools? -

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

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

6. Whole number of School-Houses for Freedmen in your District? 0  Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? - 

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

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 0  Where? -

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized?
Cuthbert Randolph Co, Lumpkin of Florence Stewart Co, Fort Gaines Clay Co, Georgetown, Quitman Co

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? from 40, to 125 each

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Impossible to make an estimate

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? 
Reporting destitute localities where schools might be established.

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

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

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? General indifference even among the freedmen themselves, the whites opposed to Northern teachers and the mass of the people opposed to schools for freedmen

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes In what way could they be carried on? By providing good teachers & suitable places for meeting


18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Build School houses and provide teachers

19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? Unknown certainly until the State shall establish & support 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.

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

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