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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, [[strikethrough]] State [[/strikethrough]] City of Pine Bluff Ark in charge of S Geisreiter for the Month of May 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? Pine Bluff

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

3. Location of Schools? Two at Pine Bluff, one on the Creed Taylor Plantation

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

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School teachers?
Mrs Jas P. Lyman  Pine Bluff Ark.
Miss Kate G. Slesser  Pine Bluff Ark.
Mr. I.S. Byers  Pine Bluff Ark.
Mrs Mary B. Hitchcock  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 not very good  Capacity of 150, 100, & 30 scholars each, one owned by Government one by freedmen and one by Mr. Creed Taylor

7. Number of visits to Schools? 2 Day? 2 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? None can be organized in this dist. at present.

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