From the inclosed memorial of Colo Chas Simms your Excellency will collect his anxiety concerning a contest, now depending in a court of your State. But I am forbidden by the confidence, which I place in the Justice and proper Execution of your laws, officially to interpose on this occasion, farther than to communicate his suggestions of which your Excellency will, I am sure, make every use, and application, which may with propriety tend to his relief. I have the honor to be, sir Your Excellencys Most obedient and Humble Servant