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[page 62] What I want to make appear is that the superintendent with the trustees have control of the institution, and that the steward is an officer who acts under the direction of the superintendent. But so far as the superintendent is concerned it might as well be under the direction of somebody else as under his direction. He does not exercise any superintendence over the treasurer, which belongs to him to do. I may be a little disconnected in my remarks as I am not used to public speaking, and I was some what hurried in getting ready to appear here today. I went there to the hospital intending to do my duty and did the best I could, and things seemed to go along pretty well for a while. The first rebuff that I met that showed me that things were not exactly- Mr. Morrill- When did you go there Dr.? Dr. Neal: July 1875 I think. I had spoken to Miss. Twitchell, who then had charge of the kitchen storeroom, the supplies that were furnished to the kitchen, in regard to some tobacco. Some times the patients would ask for tobacco and I would carry a little to them. And I asked her, if she was going down there, if she