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Teachers Monthly School-Report.
To Bureau of Refugees, Freemen, and Abandoned Lands.
[??] A School under the distinct control of one Teacher, or a Teacher with one assistant, is to be reported as one School.  To be forwarded as soon as possible after the 1st of each month.

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

No. of Day Schools 1
No. of Night Schools 0
Location, or the Name of School Decatur Ala
When opened Oct 1st 1866
Societies, &C, Patrons. Freedmans Bureau
No. Schools sustained in by freedmen 1
No. Schools sustained in part by freedmen 0
No. Teachers transported by Bureaus 0
No. School buildings owned by freedman 0
No. School buildings furnished by Bureau 0
Teachers. Whole No. 1
          White. 1
          Colored. 0
No. Pupils Enrolled Male. 13
                    Female. 12
No. pupils enrolled last report 0
No. left school this month 0
No. new scholars this month 0
Average attendance 25
No. of pupils paying tuition 0
No. of White pupils 0
No. always present 15
No. always punctual 10
No. over 16 years of age 9
No. in Alphabet 20
No. spell and read easy lessons 5
No. advanced readers 5
No. geography 3
No. arithmetic 0
No. higher branches 0
No. writing 14
No. needlework 0
No. free before the war 0
No. Sabbath-Schools 0 
No. pupils in Sabbath-Schools 0
Totals 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 25 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 20 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

To these questions give exact or approximate answers.
1. How many of above Schools are graded?  None.   How many grades?  None
2. How many Day or Night Schools, within your knowledge above?  None Whole No. of pupils  (estimated) in all such Schools? None No. Teachers in all, None White, None Colored, None
3. " " Sabbath-Schools, " " " " "  None " " " " " None " " " None " None " None
4. " " Industrial Schools? None Whole No. pupils in all? None State the kind of work done, None 
5. Whole amount of tuition paid by the Freedmen during the month $30.00
6. Whole amount of cost of transportation furnished by the Bureau for the month, None
7. Grand total of expense per month for support of above schools by all parties, $30.00
8. Whole No. of High or Normal schools, None  How many pupils in all?  None
9. Remarks.  This school was [[??]] the 1st of Oct with the intention of 
[[??]] the wages being only $30 per month the teacher Mr. [[Leambell?]] concluded to [[quit?]]
Signed [[??]]