Opinion of the Justices

To the Honorable Senate:

The undersigned Justices of the Supreme Court have received your resolution of April 6, 1954, requesting our opinion as to whether it would be constitutional, under the amendment of 1942 to Article 5, Part Second, of the Constitution, to provide for the appraisal of standing wood and timber for the purposes of a severance tax at fixed values per units of measurement, such values to be uniform throughout the state, and to vary according to the species and the quality of the standing wood and timber.

Since it does not appear that the question propounded is one which is…