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

1. Name of your Sub-District? Selma, Ala

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 6 Day? 4 Night? 0 Sabbath? 2

3. Location of Schools? Selma, Marion, Pleasant Hill.

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

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

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Prof. J H. Sears, Supt, Teacher. Miss E. C. Stowe, Assistant. W. G. Morris, Selma, Ala, Wm. Bayley. Pleasant Hill.
 
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 5 Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? Condition good. Capacity. Selma /300/. Marion /250/. Pleasant Hill /75/. Value Marion $2500. - One small building at Selma $100. - the others are rented. 

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? 0

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? 7.- Athens, Summerfield, Burnsville, Marion Junction, Uniontown, Hamburg, Camden.

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? Athens /150/. Summerfield /50/. Burnsville /75/. Marion Junction /50/. Uniontown /250/. Hamburg /120/ Camden /150/.

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Nothing can be depended upon.

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? Solliciting subscriptions in labor and money for the erection of School buildings. The County Superintendents are appointing Boards of Education in each township. Schools will be opened as soon as the enumeration is completed

13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? 7.

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? No, but the State government are endeavoring to do this by their County Superintendents.

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? Support of Teachers

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? In large places among the better class of citizens it may be considered favorable. The lower class in general are opposed to the education of freedmen.

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? yes In what way could they be carried on? by teachers of Day-schools

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? appropriate money for salaries of teachers 
 
19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? one year at least.


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.

Chas C Bartlett 
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.

Transcription Notes:
Soliciting in question 12 is spelled incorrectly in the original document.