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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.C. Predmane (Agt) for the Month of July 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? 

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

3. Location of Schools? 

4. Whole number of Teachers?  White?  Colored? 

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

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

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

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

9. Number and name of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? 

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

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

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of the schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government?

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

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

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District?  In what way could be carried on? 

18. What more can this Bureau do for education the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? 

19. How long with Northern charitable aid be need for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? 

[[right margin]] There are no schools at present and it is impossible to organize any unless the whole expenses are furnished by the Bureau [[/right margin]]

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.

J.C. Predmane 
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.