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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 R Blair, Agt 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?  Tuscaloosa
2.  Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District?  2
Day?  2
Night?  1
Sabbath?  2
3.  Location of Schools?  Tuscaloosa.
4.  Whole number of Teachers?  2
White?  2
Colored?  0
5.  Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers?
Miss E L. Burton Tuscaloosa
Richard Furman Tuscaloosa
6.  Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District?
Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned?
There is none Explicitly Built for that purpose, the one that is used by Miss Benton is owned by Mrs. J. C. Avery. Excelent House, capable of accommodating 75 pupils. Mr Furmans is a room in a freedmans House  
7.  Number of your visits to Schools?  2
Day?  1
Night?
Sabbath?  1
8.  Number of educational meetings held by you during the month?  none
Where?  it has been impracticable, on account of hostile & spitefull [[spiteful]] feeling, of Community
9.  Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized?  In Carrolton Pickens Co. and Elyton Jefferson Co, the other Co's. of this District have few Col'd. persons in them  
10.  Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools?  perhaps 100,
11.  Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood?  very little in deed
12.  What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government?  Nothing can be done in the present condition of the Country 
13.  Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District?  if possible 3 or 4
14.  Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein?  Impossible [[strikethrough]] as [[/strikethrough]] until things become more settled
15.  To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases?  all most entirely
16.  What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites?  Rather hostile
17.  Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District?  Yes
In what way could they be carried on?  by Employing good Teachers
18.  What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)?  Nothing unless by Employing a few good Teachers
19.  How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?  Impossible to say, as all depends upon, whether the State is admited & things become settled,

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 Blair
Agt. [[strikethrough]] Sub-Asst. Com., [[/strikethrough]] Bureau R., F., & A.L.

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