Opinion of the Justices

*553The following answer was returned:

To His Excellency the Governor and the Honorable Council:

The undersigned Justices of the Supreme Court make the following answers to the inquiries contained in your resolution filed December 16, 1957, pertaining to the levying of taxes upon gas and electric utilities at the state level.

The resolution states in part that you “are in need of judicial advice on the applicable constitutional law in this field in order properly to determine whether it is wise and practical ... to convene the General Court in Special Session for the above-stated objective.”

As is…