Opinion of the Justices

To the House of Representatives:

The undersigned Justices of the Supreme Court furnish this opin ion in answer to the inquiry of your resolution of April 28 whether the provisions of House Bill No. 161 (In Second New Draft) violate any provisions of the state or federal constitutions.

It is not clear to what specific prescriptions of the organic law your doubts may apply, but we assume that the chief one in mind is that relating to pensions. By our state constitution (Pt. I, Art. 36) no pension shall be granted except for actual services, and then for no more than one year at a time. “A pension…