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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 Bt Col C.C. Gilbert U.S.A. for the Month of April 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? Hempstead and Pike Counties, Arkansas.

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

3. Location of Schools? Town of Washington Hempstead County.

4. Whole number of Teachers? 2  White? 2  Colored? -

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Mr D C Casey, Mrs D C Casey, Washington, Hempstead County Arkansas.

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? One  Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? Good condition. Will seat about one hundred persons. Value, Twenty five hundred dollars. Owned by Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned lands.

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

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? None  Where? -

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? Columbus, and Nashville, in the County of Hempstead, Murfreesboro in the County of Pike.

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? About forty to each. Probably more.