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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 for the Month of October 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circu-tu: 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 
4. Whole number of Teachers? 1 White? 1 Colored?
5. Names and post-office address of Day School Teachers? Nacogdoches Do. Co. Station Mayfield  
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? 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? Same as mentioned in September Report
10. Number of pupils estimated) who would attend such Schools?
11. Amount which would probably be raised by the Freedmen, for school purposes, in each destitute neighborhood? The frees all now able to pay for their own tuition, if teachers could only be found.
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. Same as last Report
14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? I could if teachers could be found
15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? I do not know.
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 will northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? 7 have attended 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 
Sub-Asst. Com. Bureau R.F. & A.L.