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[Ed. Form, No. 4.]

[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]]

Sub-Assistant Commissioner's (or Agent's) Monthly Report on Education of Freedmen, and Refugees in Sub-District, State of  Alabama in charge of B. T. Smith Sub. Asst. Com'r for the Month of March 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R.,F., & A.L.]

1.  Name of your Sub-District?  Opelika
2.  Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District?  14
Day?  4
Night?  
Sabbath?  10
3.  Location of Schools?  Girard. Mrs. Lewis's, Mrs Reanes's  H. King's. Glenville. Opelika. Auburn.
4.  Whole number of Teachers?  14
White?  6
Colored?  8
5.  Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers?  
G. W. Gosling Girard Ala.
Charles White Girard Ala.
H M Harvy Glenville.
Roxanna Menifield Opelika Ala.
Adalade Samford Opelika.
J Pickett Salem
6.  Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District?  4
Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned?
R A Forsyth Girard
Freedmen Kelleys plantation.
Geo Mu[[?]]h Opelika.
One at Auburn, owner unknown  
7.  Number of your visits to Schools?  2
Day?
Night?
Sabbath?
8.  Number of educational meetings held by you during the month?  One
Where?  Opelika
9.  Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? 14. Silver run, Huntsville  Uckee, Crawford Oakbowery Brook's church, Lovina, Roanoke Fredonia, Milltown LaFayette, Bluffton Cusseta, Loachapoka
10.  Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools?  1,265  Silver run 100, Huntsville 100, Uckee 75,  Crawford 75, Oak bowery 100, Brooks Church 100, Lovina 60, Roanoke 75, Fredonia 100, Milltown 75, LaFayette 100, Bluffton 100, Cusseta 75, Loachapoka 100,
11.  Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood?  Very little
12.  What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government?  Urging upon the Freedmen to employ all the means in their power to sustain schools in every neighborhood
13.  Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District?  10
14.  Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein?  If I could travel through the Dist in person I might accomplish something in that way.
15.  To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases?  a great deal
16.  What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites?  There seems to be but little disposition on the part of property holders to pay tax for that purpose
17.  Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District?  Yes
In what way could they be carried on?  I know of no effectual way.
18.  What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)?
19.  How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?  considerable time to come.

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.

R. F. Smith
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.

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