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[ED. FORM, NO. 4.]

SUB-ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER'S (OR AGENTS) MONTHLY REPORT
on Education of Freedmen and Refugees in Sub-District, State of Texas in charge of Alex Ferguson [[name?]] 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? 50th
2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 1 Day? - Night? - Sabbath?
3. Location of Schools? about one mile from the town of Nacogdoches
4. Whole number of Teachers? - White? one Colored?
5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Statia Mayfield
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? one Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? Condition good Capacity about 75 pupils
7. Number of your visits to Schools? 4 Day? - Night? - Sabbath?
8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? - Where?
9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? Homer. Douglass. [[?]] [[?]]- flat
10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? between 30,40. 
11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood?
12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government?
13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? 4
14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? yes
15. To what extend 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?
17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your district? In what way could they be carried on?
18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)?
19. How long with Northern Charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District?

There were 44 attended School this month

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. 

Alex Ferguson [[name?]]
Sub-Asst. Com., Bureau R.,F.,&A.L.