Schedules of Schools and Rental Accounts
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content: Records of the Education Division of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1871
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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content: NMAAHC.FB.M803, Series 7
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content: Archival materials
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content: These records consist of reports submitted to the Bureau by benevolent societies to verify payments made by the Bureau for operating freedmen's schools. The reports, September 1867–December 1870, were made for varying time periods and were generally submitted on preprinted forms. Information in the reports gives the name of the society that sponsored the school, the location of the school, the name of the teacher, the number of months the teacher had been employed, the average number of pupils, and the amount of rent due. Reports are arranged alphabetically by name of State and thereunder chronologically.

The outside fold of the report shows the name of the society that prepared the report, the period covered by the report, and the name of the State concerned. Also included are the date the report was received and the file designation of the Education Division. Virtually all the reports are marked with a file designation indicating that they were entered in the register of letters received as incoming communications and then placed in a separate file. Arranged chronologically at the end of the series are a few miscellaneous summary reports listing schools managed by benevolent societies for the period October 1868–June 1869.