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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 B. Caggerhan for the Month of August 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.]

1. Name of your Sub-District? Austin County Texas

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 1 Day? Night? Sabbath? 

3. Location of Schools? Hempstead Austin County Texas

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

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Hempstead

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 1 Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? 
The building is a small wooden one bought by the Freedmen for a church. it will hold about 100 persons. 

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 1 Day? Night? Sabbath? 

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 1 Where? At my Office

9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? None from the fact of the inability of the Freedmen to sustain them  

10. Number of pupils (estimated) who would attend such Schools? After cotton picking season is over, probably one Hundred.

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? For the above reason, but very little.

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or State government? 
I have started a school on the self sustaining plan

13. Whole number of additional School-Houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District.

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledge to carry on schools therein?   
I think not with success

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? For the present, considerable

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

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes. In what way could they be carried on? 

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Nothing that I am aware of except by assisting them permanently

19. How long will northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? 


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 B Caggerhan
Sub-Asst. Com. Bureau R. F. & A. L.