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Sub. Asst. Commissioners [[strikethrough]] TEACHER'S [[/strikethrough]] MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT.

To Bureau R.F. & A.L., for the month of May, 1868, Mobile Sub. District, State of Alabama.

☞ A School under the district control of one Teacher, or a Teacher with one assistant, is to be as one School.
☞ To contain one entire calendar month, and to be forwarded as soon as possible after the close of the month.

☞ This Report is incomplete unless each blank is filled by a number or cypher.

[[37 Columned Table]]
| No. of Day Schools. | No. of Night Schools. |[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]] NAME AND LOCATION OF SCHOOL.  | PRESENT SESSION. When opened. | PRESENT SESSION. When to close | SOCIETIES, &c, PATRONS. | No. Schools sustained by Freedmen. | No. Schools sustained in part by Freedmen. | No. Teachers transported by Bureau. | No. School Buildings owned or rented by Freedmen. | No School Buildings [[strikethrough]] furnished [[/strikethrough]] rent pd in part by Bureau. $10.00 per Mo Each | TEACHERS.  White. | TEACHERS. Col'd. | NO. PUPILS ENROLLED. (Both Day and Night Schools.) Male. | NO. PUPILS ENROLLED. (Both Day and Night Schools.) Female. | No. Pupils enrolled last Report. | No left School this Month. | No. New Scholars this Month. | Average Attendance. | No of pupils paying Tuition. | No. of White Pupils. | No. always Present. | No. always Punctual | No. over 16 years of Age. | No. in Alphabet. | No. Spell and Read easy Lessons. | No. advanced Readers. | No. Geography. | No. Arithmetic. | No. Higher Branches. | No. Writing. | No. Needle-work. | No. Free before the War. | No. Sabbath-Schools. | No. Teachers in Sabbath Schools. | No. Pupils in Sabbath School | Amt. of tuition paid. | 
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| 1 |  | Emerson Institute Govt. St Mobile | Apl 26 | June 26 | Am. Miss Association | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 Owners generally unknown. The teachers are responsible for rents.  U. S. pays teachers | 0 | 8 | 0 | 179 | 205 | 468 | 98 | 14 | 334 | 254 | 0 | 162 | 101 | 0 | 72 | 110 | 274 | 147 | 384 | 46 | 152 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | $190.00 |
  
| 1 |  | Stone St. Mobile | 0 | 0 | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 Owners generally unknown. The teachers are responsible for rents.  U. S. pays teachers | 1 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 35 | 81 | 21 | 12 | 65 | 67 | 0 | 65 | 65 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 41 | 25 | 53 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 48 | 55.00 |

| 1 |  | Good Shepherd Mobile | Jan 1st | 0 | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 Owners generally unknown. The teachers are responsible for rents.  U. S. pays teachers | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 40 | 13 | 0 | 23 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30.00 |

| 1 |  | Dallas Mobile | Mch 1st | June 30 | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 Owners generally unknown. The teachers are responsible for rents.  U. S. pays teachers | 1 | 0 | 1 | 25 | 30 | 50 | 0 | 5 | 45 | 15 | 0 | 40 | 40 | 10 | 7 | 30 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 0 |  | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 |

| 1 |  | Zion Mobile | Mch 1st | 0 | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 Owners generally unknown. The teachers are responsible for rents.  U. S. pays teachers | 1 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 28 | 37 | 0 | 11 | 35 | 48 | 0 | 30 | 30 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 400 | == | 

| 1 |   | Orange Grove | 0 | 0 | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 Owners generally unknown. The teachers are responsible for rents.  U. S. pays teachers  | 1 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 15 | 33 | 3 | 5 | 35 | 35 | 0 | 35 | 35 | 4 | 20 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 10 50/100 |

| 1 |   | Union, Mobile | Sept | Aug | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 Owners generally unknown. The teachers are responsible for rents.  U. S. pays teachers | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 19 | 0 | 19 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30.00 |

| 1 |   | Mrs. Maynax School, Mobile | Apl | 0 | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 Owners generally unknown. The teachers are responsible for rents.  U. S. pays teachers | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 16 | 17 | 0 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | = |

| 1 |   | Baldwin Co Ala. | Jan 1st | 0 | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 Owners generally unknown. The teachers are responsible for rents.  U. S. pays teachers | 1 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 10 | 27 | 3 | 13 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 12 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 40 | = |

| 1 |   | Miss Sarah Jackson Mob. | 0 | 0 | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 Owners generally unknown. The teachers are responsible for rents.  U. S. pays teachers | 0 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 0 | 21 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | = |

| 1 |   | Miss Cleveland | 0 | 0 | Freedmen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 Owners generally unknown. The teachers are responsible for rents.  U. S. pays teachers | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 35 | 1 | 8 | 23 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | = |

Totals | 11/ | 11 |   |   |   |   | 10 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 12/10 | 22 | 364/392 | 756 | 762 | 140 | 134 | 650 | 514 | 0 | 460 | 399 | 23 | 147 | 259 | 393 | 254 | 536 | 70 | 256 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 15 | 523 | $335 50/100 |

☞ To these questions give exact or approximate answers, prefixing to the latter the word "about."
1. How many of above Schools are graded? 1 
How many grades? Classified according to Readers from 1st to 5th with Primary Dept.
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above? None
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?  
No. Teachers in all,  
White,  
Colored,  
3. How many Sabbath Schools within your knowledge, not reported above? In various churches
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools? 1200 
No. Teachers in all, -
White, - 
Colored, 50  
4. How many Industrial Schools? None Known
Whole No. pupils in all?  
State the kind of work done, 
5. Whole amount of tuition paid by the Freedmen during the month, $335 50/100
6. Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month, Seventy Eight & 66/100 
7. Grand total of expenses for support of above Schools by all parties for the month, 
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools, 
How many pupils in all? 
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools, Improving no hostility
10. Remarks. A number of these schools will be dropped June 30" on account of teachers incompetency. There is no good to be derived in encouraging worthless teachers. Schools decrease in summer owing to children going to work.

James Gillette
Captain 15" Inf. Bvt. Maj. U.S.A.
Sub. Asst. Commr.