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The Board of Registration is just completing its second session in this County, having taken some fifty (50) additional names of col'd people, this class having now a larger majority, than at the close of the first session of the Board.

Several prisoners recently escaped from the Hanover County Jail have been reported as having banded together, and committed some depredations upon a plantation near Ellett's Mill on the South Anna. The citizens have turned out in considerable number, white and colored, and rewards have been offered, but thus far none have been captured.

There is a day school, taught by a colored man at Shiloh Church in the lower part of the County. It numbers about (60) sixty scholars and is supported by its patrons. It is expected that this school will close early in Autumn, in which case I would warmly recommend the location as a favorable one for the establishment of a free school, if consistent with the plans and resources of those having charge of this interest. I am not aware of the existence of any other day schools in the County at this time.

Transcription Notes:
The South Anna is a river in Virginia.