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DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT'S MONTHLY SCHOOL REPORT

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

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

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

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

[[36 Columned Table]]
| No. of Day Schools. | No. of Night Schools. | 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 by Freedmen. | No. School Buildings furnished by Bureau. | TEACHERS. White. | TEACHERS. Col'd. | NO. PUPILS ENROLLED. (Both Day and Night Schools.) Male. | No. PUPILS ENROLLED. (Both Day and Night Schools.) Fem'e. | 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 Schools. |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 |   | Emerson Institute | Oct 15th |   | Freedmens | - | - | 6 | - | 1 | 6 | - | 179 | 217 | - | - | 396 | 337 | - | - | 291 | 269 | 6 | 65 | 155 | 191 | 150 | 186 | 1 | 25 | - | 3 | - | - | - |
| 2 |   | Union School | Oct 1st |   | Freedmens | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 15 | 20 | - | - | 35 | 30 | 25 | - | 20 | 20 | - | - | 9 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 1 | 26 | - | 3 | 1 | 40 | 600 |
TOTALS. 
| 3 | 0  /3 |   |   |   |   | 1 | - | 6 | - | 2 | 6 | 1  /7 | 194 | 237  /431 | - | - | 431 | 367 | 25 | - | 311 | 289 | 6 | 65 | 164 | 217 | 176 | 212 | 2 | 51 | - | 6 | 1 | 40 | 600 |         

☞ To these questions give exact or approximate answers, prefixing to the latter the word "about."

1. How many of above Schools are graded?  one 
How many grades?  3 
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge, not reported above?  3 
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?  215 
No. Teachers in all,  3 
White,  2 
Colored,  1 
3. How many Sabbath-Schools, within your knowledge not reported above? In various churches 
Whole No. of pupils (estimated) in all such Schools?  Do not Know 
No. Teachers in all,  - 
White,  - 
Colored,  - 
4. How many Industrial Schools?  None 
Whole No. pupils in all?   -
State the kind of work done,  -
5. Whole amount of Tuition paid by the Freedmen during the month,  Ten (10) Dollars 
6. Whole amount of expenses for the above Schools by the Bureau for the month,  $10.00 
7. Grand total of expenses for support of above Schools by all parties for the month,  $10.00 
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools,  None 
How many pupils in all? - 
9. State the public sentiment towards Colored Schools,  Most cordial among the educated & respectable classes
10. Remarks.

J. M. [[?]]
Lt 4th Infy USA & Sub Asst Commr

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