Opinions of the Justices to the Senate

*896To the Honorable the Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:

*897The undersigned Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court respectfully submit these answers to the questions set forth in an order adopted by the Senate on February 5, 1981, and transmitted to us on February 13, 1981. The order recites that there is pending before the General Court a bill entitled, “An Act relative to title to tidelands lying within the city of Boston and bordering on or near the waters of the commonwealth.” (Senate No. 1001.)

The emergency preamble proposed for Senate No. 1001 states that the purpose of the act is…