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

1. Name of your Sub-District? N 14

2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 6 Day? 6 Night? 0 Sabbath? 4

3. Location of Schools? Columbus, Alleyton, Jones Bend, Osage Neusem's Plantation.

4. Whole number of Teachers? 6 White? 6 Colored? 0

5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Geo W Hanna Columbus, N.B Roach Alleyton, Louis E Beaumont Columbus, J.L. Wiggans Osage Thos Salmon, Eagle Lake

6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your district? 2 Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? 
Columbus Good 200 children $900 Trustees Freedmen School Association 
Jones Bend Bad 50           —   Plantation hands Jones Plantation

7. Number of your visits to Schools? 8 Day? 4 Night? Sabbath? 4

8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? none Where?

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

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

11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? Nothing more than the allowance per head, to pay teacher.

12. What efforts are you making to secure the support by pupils, parents, boards of education, or the State government? All efforts possible to induce the Freedpeople to send to school, build houses, support teacher, spend on books. Have obtained a good supply of books tracts &c from Friends Freedmen Association Phila.

13. Whole number of additional School-houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District? One in a circuit of every five miles

14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? Not at present.

15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? Help, sufficient to build a house.

16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and Poor Whites? Profoundly good.

17. Are Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? yes  In what way could they be carried on? Can only be carried on by the teachers of day schools. It is somewhat doubtful if then they would be self sustaining

18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Send teachers & pay them — in all localities where needed.

19. How long will Northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools in your District? Till the State provides a system of public education

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. 

Transcription Notes:
Fralesburg = Frelsburg Texas