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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 Arkansas in charge of J.L Thorp for the Month of February 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? Ouachita and Calhoun Counties

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

3. Location of Schools? Camden Ouachita Co

4. Whole number of Teachers? One White? (1) Colored? None

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? James A. Scovill Camden Ouachita Co

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? None  Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned?

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

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? Four  Where? The Freedmens Reading Club at the African M. E. Church Camden every Tuesday evening

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? I think there are two other localities in This District where Freedmen Schools could be maintained

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? The colored population outside of the city of Camden is so sparse, that a school could not be supported