The clerk, assistant clerk, temporary clerk and temporary assistant clerk of a court shall be sworn before a justice thereof, who shall, upon administering the oaths of office, forthwith make return of such act with the date thereof to the state secretary.
Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 221, § 11
Oath of clerk
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