Legal Opinion
Opinion of the Justices to the Senate
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 19, 1956PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*723To the Honorable Senate of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
The Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court respectfully submit these answers to questions set forth in an order of the Senate dated May 16, 1956, and transmitted to us on May 24.
*724The questions relate to a pending bill creating the Massachusetts Port Authority, hereinafter called the Authority, to take over, finance, and operate the existing East Boston vehicular tunnel, knoAvn as the Sumner tunnel, the State OAvned airports at East Boston and Bedford, the Mystic River Bridge, and the “port properties,” consisting of piers and harbor…
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