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[ED. FORM, No. 4.]

SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER'S (OR AGENT'S) MONTHLY REPORT on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District, State of Texas in charge of Louis W Stevenson For the month of July 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? Fourteenth

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 4 reporting Day? 4 Sabbath? 4

3. Location of Schools? Columbus LaGrange & Alleyton, Eagle Lake (Cedar Creek - Columbus - R. Hills school not reporting)

4. Whole number of Teachers? 5 White? 4 Colored? 1

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Geo W Hanna, Columbus, W. T. Gooden & Mrs Carrie Westerfield, LaGrange, N. B. Roach Alleyton, Louis A. Beaumont Eagle Lake. 

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 3 Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned? 
Columbus - good - 200 scholars - $900 - Trustees Freedmens school association
La Grange - good - 100 scholars -  500 - Trustees Freedmens school association
Eagle Lake  poor  50 scholars  - Plantation Lands
[[?]] Alleyton

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 5 Day? 5 Night? - Sabbath? 4

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 0 Where? 0

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized?
Osage & Prairie Point  

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? Forty at each

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Nothing at present — except for tuition

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or State government? Every effort in my power with parents & pupils

13. Whole number of additional School-Houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District. one in a circuit of every five miles in settled neighborhoods

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? No.

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? Everything except land purchase money. Should crops turn out good as present prospects indicate they will, the freed people will have money to erect school house

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and poor Whites? Generally favorable as expressed.

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes  In what way could they be carried on? Can only be carried on at such points, where there is a day schools & then — not till the nights grow longer

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Make it an object for capable teachers, to take colored schools.

19. How long will northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? 'Till such time as free schools may be established by law, or till the country has been blessed with three or four good crops

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.

Louis W Stevenson
Sub Asst Com. Bureau R. F. & A. L.