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[ED. FORM, No. 4.]

SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER'S (OR AGENTS) MONTHLY REPORT 
on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District, State of Arkansas in charge of S. Geisieiter  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? District of Pine Bluff

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District?  3  Day? 0  Night? 3  Sabbath? 

3. Location of Schools? 2 at Pine Bluff. one on the Creed Taylor plantation

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

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? 
Mr James O. Lyman Pine Bluff Ark; Miss Kate G. Glesser Pine Bluff Ark, Mr T.S. Byers Pine Bluff Ark; Miss May Hetchcach New Gascony, Jefferson Co. Ark.

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 3 Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? Condition of one is new and that of the other two is not very good - Capacity of 100, 150 and 30 Scholars respectively - one owned by Government, one by freedmen, one by owner of plantation

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

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 3 Where? Pine Bluff

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? Cannot now ascertain correctly owning to the unsettled condition of the freedmen

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? The same answer as above ([[?]])