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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 Alabama in charge of Chas. C. Bartlett 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?  Selma

2.  Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District?  9
Day?  5
Night?  1
Sabbath?  3

3.  Location of Schools?  Selma, Cahaba & Pleasant Hill, Dallas County, Marion, Perry County.   

[[Stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/Stamp]]

4.  Whole number of Teachers?  8
White?  8
Colored?  0

5.  Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers?  Prof J. H. Sears, Supt. Miss E. C. Stowe (asst teacher), Rev. J. H. Walker, (Name of his Asst. unknown), Selma, Ala.; William Bayley, Pleasant Hill, Dallas Co., Alden Emmons, Cahaba, Dallas, Co; T. C. Stewart, and Mrs H. F. Tradwell (asst) Marion, Perry Co.     

6.  Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District?  5
Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned?  Condition good - Capacity, Selma 300 - Marion 250 - Cahaba 100 - Pleasant Hill 75 = Marion building - built by Bureau value ($2500.> one small building in Selma valued $100.> The others are rented.     

7.  Number of your visits to Schools?  2
Day?  1
Night?  1
Sabbath?

8.  Number of educational meetings held by you during the month?  0
Where?  0  Teachers of the several schools in Selma have been consulted upon the subjects & Such meetings are contemplated.

9.  Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized?  Athens, Summerfield, Burnsville, & Marion Junction, in Dallas Co. Camden, Wilcox Co. Uniontown, Perry Co. Cahaba, Dallas Co 

10.  Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools?  1  Cahaba, 100; Marion Junction, 50; Athens, 150; Summerfield 40; Burnsville, 75; Uniontown, 100; Camden, 100;   

11.  Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Nothing could be depended upon beyond rent, or the erection, of a school building (temporary)

12.  What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government?  Pupils & Parents would furnish school buildings, if Teachers could be supplied.

13.  Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District?  Seven (7)  Athens, 1; Summerfield, 1; Burnsville, 1; Marion Junction, 1; Camden, 1; Uniontown, 1; Selma, 1;   

14.  Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein?  No

15.  To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases?  Supply Teachers

16.  What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites?  In large places, among the better class of citizens, it may be considered favorable.  In general, the lower class of whites are opposed to it, (so far as relates to Freedmen) Schools for Poor Whites would receive more general, and much stronger support.

17.  Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District?
In what way could they be carried on?  By teachers of day schools

18.  What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)?  Supplying teachers from the North and increasing pay of teachers already paid by "Am. Miss. Association," in order that rates of tuition may be reduced. 

19.  How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?  One year, at least.

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.

Chas. C. Bartlett
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.


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