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Ed. Form No. 4
Sub Assistant Commissioner (or Agents) Monthly Report on Education of Freedman and Refugees in Sub-Dist. State of Alabama in charge of Lieut. E.H. Weirman U.S.A. for the month of October 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? 1  Day?   Night? 1  Sabbath?  
3. Location of Schools?  
[[Stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/Stamp]]
4. Whole number of Teachers?   White?   Colored?  
5. Names and post office address of Day-School Teachers?
J.W.E. Hunias; Mobile Alabama.
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freemen in your Dist.?   Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned? 
 
7. Number of your visits to Schools?   Day?   Night?   Sabbath?   
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? 
 
10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such schools? 
 
11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for Schools purposes in each destitute neighborhood? 
 
12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of Schools by pupils, parents, boards of education or the State government? 
 
13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? 
 
14. Could you organize your Sub-Dist, into School Districts, each with a school Committee pledged to carry on Schools therein? 
 
15. To what extend would help from without be needed in such cases? 
 
16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? 
 
17. Are night Schools for Adults needed in your District?    In which way could they be Carried on?
 
18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor White). 
 
19. How long will Northern Charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?  


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

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