Opinions of the Justices To the Governor

To His Excellency, the Governor of the Commonwealth :

The undersigned Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court respectfully submit this answer to the question set forth in a request dated April 3, 1972, and submitted to us on April 4,1972.

Your request indicates that the representative from the Fifth Congressional District of Massachusetts to the Ninety-second Congress of the United States will soon resign, thereby creating a vacancy in the Commonwealth’s representation in Congress. At the time of the last general election on November 3, 1970, G. L. c. 57, § 1, as appearing in St. 1967, c. 472, §…