Opinion of the Justices

To the House of Representatives:

The undersigned justices of the supreme court return the following reply to the question presented in your resolution adopted on May 3, 1977, and filed in this court on May 5, 1977. The question reads as follows:

“Can a New Hampshire statute declaring that the lateral marine boundary between New Hampshire and Maine is or ought to be different from the boundary as specified in the decree of the Supreme Court of the United States in New Hampshire v. Maine [426 U.S. 363 (1976)] supersede or in any way affect the validity of that decree?”

House bill 1136 seeks to…