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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 Alexander Ferguson for the Month of September 1868 [in accordance with order contained in Circuit No. 5, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.]

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? One Mile East of Nacogdoches C.H.
4. Whole number of teachers? 1 White? Colored?
5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Staten Mayfield, Nacogdoches Do County
6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 1 Their condition, capacity, value and by whom owned?
7. Number of your visits to Schools? 0 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? Douglass, Albo, Cheino  Homer & Melrose
10. Number of pupils (estimated) Who would attend such School? It is hard to state, from the way I see the present school supported
11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? It is impossible to tell
12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or State government?
13. Whole number of additional School-Houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District. 5
14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? yes, if the Freedmen had any funds to pay tuition
15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? As far as I can see it can only be carried on, but, by help from without 
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? yes In what way would they be carried on? They have no disposition to learn.
18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? The Bureau has never done anything to encourage Edu n in this sub, though repeatedly called upon by former agents.
19. How long will northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? No aid have ever been rendered them

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