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SLAMA v. ATTORNEY GENERAL

384 Mass. 620 (1981)

428 N.E.2d 134

GEORGE R. SLAMA & others vs. ATTORNEY GENERAL & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 17, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig E. Stewart (Douglas H. Wilkins with him) for George R. Slama & others.

Harold J. Carroll, Corporation Counsel, for the city of Boston, joined in a brief.

Alexander G. Gray, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General & another.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

George R. Slama and eleven other qualified voters (first signers) signed an initiative petition entitled "An Act providing for the participation of the municipalities in State taxes generated in those municipalities" (Initiative 11/81). Citing art. 48 of the Amendments to the Massachusetts Constitution, the Attorney General refused to certify Initiative 11/81, because it "makes a specific appropriation of money from the treasury."

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