Legal Opinion
Opinion of the Justices to the Governor & Council
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 28, 1956PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*746To His Excellency the Governor and The Honorable Council of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
The Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court respectfully submit these answers to the questions contained in your order adopted June 7, 1956, and transmitted to us on that day.
The questions relate to the status of a proposed legislative amendment to the Constitution providing for four year terms for the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Receiver General, Attorney General, and Auditor which was laid before a joint session in 1954, and to certain other proposed legislative…
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