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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 August 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau R., F., & A.L.

1. Name of your Sub-District? Fourteenth

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 6 Day? Night? Sabbath? 5

3. Location of Schools? Columbus, Alleyton, La Grange, Jones Bend (E. Lake) Cedar Creek, not reported, Ronies Hills near Jones Bend Tarts plantation

4. Whole number of teachers? 6 White? 4 Colored 2

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Geo W Hanna Columbus, N.B. Roach Alleyton Louis E Beaumont. Eagle Lake, Mrs Annie Westerfield La Grange — Romeo Hill Eagle Lake — Clark Cedar Creek. La salle Columbus

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 3 Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? 
Columbus  good  200  $900  Trustees Freedmen's school association
La Grange  good  100  500  Trustees Freedmen's school association
Jones Bend  —   50  —   Plantation hands

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 2 Day? Night? Sabbath? 3

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 each

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Very little except for tuition

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of school by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? None this month

13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? One in 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? To extent of building house & furnishing teacher

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor whites? Professedly favorable to education.

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? yes In what way could they be carried on? Night schools can be maintained only where there is a day school, & by the teacher thereof, as sufficient pupils could not be gotten to maintain independent night schools in any locality in the District

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? See July report

19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your district? 'Till such time as free schools are provided by law

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.