The office of the Supreme Court clerk said official notice of its decision will now be mailed to a special federal court in Montgomery, Ala. in two or three days.

Reconsideration had been asked in two petitions, filed by the City of Montgomery, Ala., and the Alabama Public Service Commission.

The high tribunal in its November decision affirmed a ruling by a special three-judge district court in Montgomery that segregation violates the constitution.

STATE LAW VOIDED

The Supreme Court's decision struck down an Alabama state law and a Montgomery city ordinance that required separation of the races on buses.

The city's petition for reconsideration said the Supreme Court's brief order of affirmance left unanswered various "vital" law questions. The petition of the Alabama Public Service Commission said the November decision had wrongfully taken from Alabama the state's police power.

"NO MAN'S LAND"

"There now exists a no man's land, in which the state, under the Supreme Court's opinion, is powerless to protect property and prevent breaches of the peace which will inevitably result from the court's decision rendered in this cause," the commission petition declared.

The Supreme Court announced its action in two brief orders which said merely that petitions for rehearing were denied, as well as a request that the high tribunal clarify its Nov. 13 action.