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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 D.R. Smith for the month of October 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? Opelika

2. Whole number of Refugees or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 16 Day? 7 Night? 1 Sabbath? 8

3. Location of Schools? 

4. Whole number of Teachers? 8 White? 8 Colored? 

5. Names and post office address of Day-School Teachers?
 
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District?  Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned? None owned by the Freedmen, I do not know the capacity and value of those which are rented

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 1 Day? - Night? - Sabbath? 1

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 1 Where? at Opelika Ala

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? Not more than half enough to build the no. of School Houses necessary

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? I am trying to cooperate with the County Suptn of Education in building, and renting School Houses in order that the (col) Children may have the benefits of the Free school Laws which have recently been passed by the State of Ala  

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

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a school Committee pledged to carry on Schools therein?
The present School Laws of the State provide for this.

15. To what extent 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?
The wealthy Whites, as a general thing, are very much opposed to it 

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? yes In what way could they be carried on? Furnish Competent Teachers and assist them in building School Houses. There are but very few educated Whites in this State who are willing to take charge of a Col. School of any kind.

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Assist them in building School Houses and employing competent Teachers
 
19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? Till they are finished with School Houses and competent Teachers


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.
D.R. Smith
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R., F., & A.L.