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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 October 1868, [in accordance with order contained in Circular No. 5, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.] 1. Name of your Sub-District? Fourteenth 2. Whole number of Refugee or Freedmen's Schools in the District? 6 Day? 6 Night? 1 Sabbath? 4 3. Location of Schools? Columbus, Alleyton, Osage, Andersons, Plantation & mill from Jones Bend Andersons Plantation 4. Whole number of Teachers? 6 White? 6 Colored? 0 5. Names and post-office address of Day-School Teachers? Geo W Hanna & John MCarthy Columbus H. Wiggans, Osage. NB Roach Alleyton, Louis E Beaumont Columbus, H. Wiggans, Osage. NB Roach Alleyton, Louis E Beaumont Columbus. told Eagle Lake has 4 and cattle Eagle Lake (less it is supposed) 6. Whole number of School-houses for Freedmen in your District? 3 Their condition, capacity, value, and by whom owned? near Eagle Lake Columbus Good 200 Pupil $900 - Trustees F.S.A. Jones Bend Poor 50 Pupils $- Plantation holding Alleytown Poor 50 Pupils $100 J.B. Layendall Anderson's Plantation - School in church Osage - in a plantation house Andersons 4 miles from Columbus - on the Ruhr 7. Number of your visits to Schools? 4 Day? Night? 1 Sabbath? 4 To Columbus School 8. Number of educational meetings held by you during the month? 0 Where? 0 9. Number and names of places, now destitute, in which Day-Schools might be organized? Taits Plantation, 10 miles from Columbus - Hubbards Ferry - 12 miles to - below on the Ruhr - Prairie Point - Frelsburg - and Cortessa - 20 miles west - 12 miles north west of Columbus - (F & C). Several other localities - on baseroad TS Krill [[??]] and have no neighborhood name. 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? Enough can be raised by Freedmen to pay teachers & something towards construction of house - Very indefinite as to what amount 12. What efforts are you making to secure the support of schools by pupils, parents, boards of education, or State government? No efforts, from State -- All in my power to induce Freedmen to organise - subjects & subs w/o list of names, & fix unstable buildings in which to teach 13. Whole number of additional School-Houses, for Freedmen, now wanted in your Sub-District. Four for present schools - Two for those intended to be organised 14. Could you organize your Sub-District into School Districts, each with a School Committee pledged to carry on schools therein? No- 15. To what extent would help from without be needed in such cases? It is very uncertain what can be obtained as such for school funds - the freed people have a plenty of money - & will have more soon. They are hoarding it - & it is impossible to determine before the cash is all sold, what can be done . 16. What is the public sentiment as to the education of the Freedmen and poor Whites? Professedly Good - 17. Any Night-Schools for Adults needed in your District? Yes. In what way could they be carried on? Wherever there is a day school, it is likely the teacher thereof can organise night school - I know of no other way to accomplish it 18. What more can this Bureau do for educating the children of Refugees (or Poor Whites)? Send teachers -- & pay them 19. How long will northern charitable aid be needed for Freedmen and Refugee Schools of your District? Till the State takes the matter in hand, or until the Freedmen make lot or there more Crops like the one just gathered. 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.
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