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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 221, § 3 (2026)

Election of clerks; term

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Section 3. There shall be a clerk for the supreme judicial court for the county of Suffolk, and two clerks for the superior court of said county, one for civil and one for criminal business; and in each of the other counties a clerk of the courts who shall act as clerk of the supreme judicial court, of the superior court and of the county commissioners. All of said officers shall hold office for six years beginning with the first Wednesday of January following their election and until their successors are qualified.

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Cited in 2 cases, 1988–2005 · leading case: Gonsalves v. Thompson, 396 F. Supp. 2d 36 (D. Mass. 2005).
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Gonsalves v. Thompson, 396 F. Supp. 2d 36 (D. Mass. 2005). “25, 2003) (holding that the petitioner’s arguments in his Opposition to the Commonwealth’s Petition for Relief Pursuant to Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 221, § 3 were sufficient to satisfy the exhaustion requirement), aff'd, 382 F.”
Donahue v. Sec'y of the Commonwealth, 403 Mass. 363 (Mass. 1988). · cites it 2× “G. L. c. 221, § 3. The clerk for the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County acts as clerk of the single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court when the single justice sits in Boston.”
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