Opinion of the Justices to the Governor & Council

*714To His Excellency the Governor and The Honorable Council of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:

The Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court respectfully submit these answers to the questions contained in your order adopted May 21, 1953, and transmitted to us May 25,

1953. A' copy of the order and of chapter 354 of the Acts of 1952, to which the order refers, are attached hereto.

For a proper understanding of the questions and of our answers it is necessary to keep in mind the general nature and certain outstanding features of the statute which has given rise to the doubts expressed in the order.…