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Ed. Form No. 4
Sub Assistant Commissioner (or Agents) Monthly Report on Education of Freedman and Refugees in Sub-Dist Mobile,  State of Alabama in charge of Bvt. Maj. James Gillette U.S.A. for the month of May 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R.F. & A. Lands]
1. Name of your Sub-District? Mobile
2. Whole number of Refugees or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 11  Day? 11  Night?   Sabbath?  About 12 known
3. Location of Schools?  
Ten (10) in Mobile City limits
One (1) in Baldwin County (Howard's Landing)
[[Stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/Stamp]]
4. Whole number of Teachers? 22  White? 12 Colored? 10
5. Names and post office address of Day-School Teachers?
The principal W.J.Squire and seven (7) female assistants of Am, Missionary Associations teachers address to care of G.L. Pitman. Superintendent Mobile Ala. Outside private schools reported by following teachers. Jeannie Patterson (Good Shepherd) H. Hall, (Stone St. School) Stephen Dallas (Dallas School-) Mrs. Tucker, & Elizabeth Williams (Orange Grove S.) John W. Thomas (Union S) Mrs. Z.A.B. Mayra, Geo Smith (Baldwin) Miss Sarah Jackson and Miss Christina Cleveland and may be addressed to care of Sub.Asst. Comm'r Sub-District of Mobile
 
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freemen in your Dist.? 11 Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned? 
They are all owned or leased by the teachers, to whom the Bureau pay $10 per month rent. - except - Emerson College owned by the Am. Miss. Association, Zion School rent paid to E.D. Taylor Pastor, & Stone District School owned by B.H. Jones
7. Number of your visits to Schools?   Day?   Night?   Sabbath? 
Emerson College which is the only one of importance except Stone St. School I visit weekly, The others monthly. Sabbath School not-at-all. 
8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? none   Where?  
9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? 
Whistler, Mobile County Ala needs a school. A good teacher is required in Baldwin Co. and the A.M.A. has agreed to send one. in the neighborhood of Grand Bay Southern part of Mobile Co.
 
10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such schools? 
About fifty (50) would attend at Whistler and Grand Bay and about (100) On hundred in Baldwin. They are the only points outside of Mobile when it would be practicable to keep up a school interest.
11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for Schools purposes in each destitute neighborhood? 
The freedmen outside of Mobile County cannot raise a dollar for the support of schools. They live very precariously and have accumulated no money.
12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of Schools by pupils, parents, boards of education or the State government? 
The Board of Education has heretofore been backward, as they expected the Constitution to go in force. But I requested them in May to appropriate the paid in School Tax received from colored taxpayers to the schools. they have done so by resolution.
13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? 
A School House should be build or purchases at Whistler and one at Grand Bay Mobile County
 
14. Could you organize your Sub-Dist, into School Districts, each with a school Committee pledged to carry on Schools therein? 
This cannot be done. The School Board has ample power here and in Baldwin County the whites are indifferent and the colored are too poor to effect this.
15. To what extend would help from without be needed in such cases? 
To establish the schools at Whistler and Grand Bay we want building & teachers. An appropriation of $300.00 was obtained for Baldwin County and the building started
16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? 
In the city of Mobile the sentiment has ceased to be one of opposition. The intelligent acquiesce in the opinion that circumstances now demand the education of the enfranchised race
 
17. Are night Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes In which way could they be Carried on?
A competent and enterprising teacher from Oct 1" to May 1" would organize and carry on a very renumeration school. It would be very popular. During the summer it would be impracticable owing to short nights and heated weather.
18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor White). 
Absolutely nothin. They are opposed to the Bureau except to receive its rations.
19. How long will Northern Charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?  
Until a State school system is put in operation, recognizing the establishment and maintenance of schools for colored people, and until such State government is vigorous enough to carry out the system.

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.
James Gillette Sub-Asst. Comr., Bureau R.,F. & A.L.