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Ed. Form No. 4
Sub Assistant Commissioner (or Agents) Monthly Report on Education of Freedman and Refugees in Sub-Dist. of Huntsville State of Alabama in charge of D.C. Rugg. Sub Asst. Comr. for the month of  1868, (in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R.F. & A. L.)
1. Name of your Sub-District? Huntsville
2. Whole number of Refugees or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 14  Day? 5  Night? 4  Sabbath? 5
3. Location of Schools? Hunstville, Stevenson, Decatur, and Athens 
[[Stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/Stamp]]
4. Whole number of Teachers? 13  White? 10 Colored? 3
5. Names and post office address of Day-School Teachers?
Miss M Hindeman, Miss M..M. Lakin, Mr. & Mrs. A.W. McCullough Huntsville. Ala., Mr James Nicholson, Stevenson, Ala., Miss M.F. Wells and three Assts names unknonw -, Athens, Ala., Miss M.M. Harrington Decatur, Ala.
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freemen in your Dist.? 5  Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned? 
One at Huntsville, M.E Church. - One at Huntsville. - M Bernstein., One at Stevenson, Freedmen; one at Decatur M.E. Church; one at Athens Fr. Sulzner.
7. Number of your visits to Schools? 3 Day? 3 Night? 0 Sabbath? 0 
8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 0 Where? 0
9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? 
One; Maysville, Ala.
10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such schools? 
Forty.
11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for Schools 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? 
none
13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? 
One
14. Could you organize your Sub-Dist, into School Districts, each with a school Committee pledged to carry on Schools therein? 
I don't think I could.
15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? 
The salaries of Teachers
16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? 
It is divided
17. Are night Schools for Adults needed in your District? No  In which way could they be Carried on?
18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites). 
Erect School Houses and employ teachers
19. How long will Northern Charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?  
Until the Country becomes more settled and prosperous,

I hereby certify, on honor, that I have given personal attention to the matters herein named, and that the answers given are, according to by best knowledge and belief, correct.
D.C. Rugg, Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R.,F., & A.L.

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