Opinion of the Justices

The following answer was returned:

To His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable Council:

The undersigned justices of the supreme court give the following answers to the questions contained in your resolution adopted on December 15, 1975, and filed with us on the same day.

Your first question asks whether the 1966 amendment to part II, arts. 19 and 36 of the State constitution, which removed the five-day limitation on the power of the legislature to adjourn itself, by implication removed from the Governor and Council the power to call the general court together when it stands in adjournment…