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SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER'S (OR AGENT'S) MONTHLY REPORT on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District, State of Alabama, in charge of C.W. Pierce Sub. Asst. Comr. for the month of June 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? Demopolis

2. Whole number of Refugees or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 1 Day? 1 Night? 0  Sabbath? 3

3. Location of Schools? Livingston Sumter Co. Ala.

[[Stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/Stamp]]

4. Whole number of Teachers? 2 White? 2 Colored? 0 

5. Names and post office address of Day-School Teachers? Daniel Price and Mrs. Sarah Bowman Livingston Ala
 
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 2 Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned? Condition. good, Capacity 450. Value $1050.00/100. Owned by Freedmen

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 0 Day? 0 Night?  0 Sabbath? 0

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 0 Where? 

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? About thirty; for names see report for April 1868

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such schools? not less than 30,000 in the District

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for Schools purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Comparatively nothing before crops are harvested

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? Advising the building of school houses and maintenance of schools where able

13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in you Sub-District? 

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a school Committee pledged to carry on Schools therein? Not before fall

15. To what extend would help from without be needed in such cases? 90 per cent. now.

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? unfavorable

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District?   In what way could they be carried on? not during the summer

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? there are but few in the District
 
19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? Until the State provides


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.

C.W. Pierce
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.