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I was not aware that by his official conduct he had forfeited their confidence.
Mr. Neiland has suffered much from
sickness since he has been on duty at 
Barnwell CH. and has been a good deal under medical
treatment. This may have for a time interrupted him in discharging his official duties.
During the summer, while he was distributing corn and bacon to the destitute he was without any reliable clerk and this work therefore occupied his time.
Whenever I have been at Baywell he has listened to all complaints made to him by the freedpeople and has endeavored to have full justice done them
I have never observed anything in his official actions which called for censure and but one colored man has ever complained here of his causes and even this complaint was founded, I think upon a misunderstanding of some of Mr. Neiland's directions.
I have lately learned that he was at a political meeting held at Barnwell, violently denounced by a colored man named Stuart who also characterized this Bureau as the greatest curse ever in inflicted upon the  "poor kinky-heads."
Why he should use such violent and extravagant expressions I am at loss to determine.
Not knowing the precise nature of the complaints made against Sheriff Woodward and Mr Neiland,