In re Opinion of the Justices

The Honorable Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Alabama

Montgomery, Alabama

Gentlemen:

Important constitutional questions have arisen in connection with the validity and interpretation of the constitutional amendment proposed by Act No. 473 adopted at the 1949 Regular Session of the Legislature of Alabama (General Acts of 1949, page 690).

Notice of the election upon that amendment was given by me by proclamation published in a newspaper published in each county of the state once a week for four successive weeks. In each county except Baldwin, the last of the four…