Opinion of the Justices to the Governor & Council
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
The following communication from the Governor and Council was transmitted to the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court on July 22, 1904: At a meeting of the Governor and the Council held on the twentieth day of July, 1904, it was ordered that the opinion of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court be requested upon the following important questions of law: 1, Whether the act of the Legislature of Massachusetts, entitled “ An Act to provide for the payment of bounties to…
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The following communication from the Governor and Council was transmitted to the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court on July 22, 1904: At a meeting of the Governor and the Council held on the twentieth day of July, 1904, it was ordered that the opinion of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court be requested upon the following important questions of law: 1, Whether the act of the Legislature of Massachusetts, entitled “ An Act to provide for the payment of bounties to certain veterans of the civil war,” being chapter 458 of the Acts of the year 1904, has the force of a law, it appearing…
1Opinion of the Court
On September 21, 1904, the Justices returned the following answer :
To His Excellency the Governor and to the Honorable Council:
We, .the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court, have considered the questions upon which our opinion was required by the order, a copy of which is hereto annexed, and we respectfully answer as follows.
The three questions present in different forms, in reference to different conditions, the single general question, Is chapter 458 of the Acts of the year 1904 a valid law under the Constitution of the Commonwealth ? The third question is in these words : “Whether, if in…
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