I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of May 21st, calling my attention to a complaint that you have received from some member of the Local Exemption Board of Cabarrus County in which it is stated that “Senator Simmons has written letters here in reference to certain parties asking that the matter be brought before our Board, &c.”

I have taken this matter up with my Clerks and have had a thorough search made of my files for any such letter written to the Cabarrus Board, or any other Board, or to any person writing me about matters coming before Local Boards. I find no letter to the Cabarrus Board, in fact no letter from any person in Cabarrus County writing me about matters before that Board.

It has been my constant policy to assure persons writing me about matters coming before the Local Boards that it was not thought proper to undertake to influence the action of the Boards from the outside and I am enclosing herewith a memorandum submitted by the Clerks of my Committee stating the policy that has been pursued heretofore in espect to such matters.

I thank you however for calling this complaint to my attention and I shall be greatly obliged if you will communicate with the writer of the letter you sent me and request him to furnish me direct, or through yourself, copies of the letters from my office about which he complains. It will not be necessary for him to give his name if he does not desire to do so.