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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  for the Month of April 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R.,F., & A.L.]

1.  Name of your Sub-District?  Tuscaloosa, consisting of Tuscaloosa, Pickens, Fayette, Walker, Marion, Jones, & Jefferson Counties
2.  Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District?  2
Day?  2
Night?  1
Sabbath?  2  This is all I know of
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?  Tuscaloosa Ala Miss. E L. Benton, & Richard Forman
6.  Whole number of School=houses for Freedmen in your District?  0
Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned?
7.  Number of your visits to Schools?  there is no house that is used, or set apart exclusively for F.M. School House Miss Benton Rents a part of Mrs. J. C. Avery's, capable of accommodating some 75 Scholars. (Mr. Forman teaches in the house of a patron
Day?
Night?
Sabbath?  about once a week.
8.  Number of educational meetings held by you during the month?  None
Where?  Impossible to do so, to do any good at this time
9.  Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized?  There are four, Carrolton Pickens Co, Elyton in Jefferson Co, Fayette C.H. Fayette Co,
10.  Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools?  30 or 40 Each perhaps, the other Counties in the District have but few Col'd. persons in them.
11.  Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood?  scarcely anything
12.  What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government?  have not been able to do anything, and cannot until a more quiet state of things in the country is brought about.
13.  Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District?  three or four might be useful
14.  Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein?  impossible at this time, - the Spirit of Rebellion is two [[too]] high & f[[?]]e yet,
15.  To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases?  almost entirely
16.  What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites?  very spitefull against the F.M. 
17.  Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District?
In what way could they be carried on?  possibly by employing a few discrete good Teachers 
18.  What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)?  nothing just now.
19.  How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?  Impossible to say just now until it is seen what the state authorities will do.

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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