Chap. 0248 An Act relative to a fifth assistant clerk of courts for the county of middlesex.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. Chapter two hundred and twenty-one of the General Laws is hereby amended by striking out section four, as most recently amended by section one of chapter three hundred and thirty-six of the acts of nineteen hundred and forty-three, and inserting in place thereof the following section: - Section 4-  The justices of the supreme judicial

court shall appoint for a term of three years from the date of their appointment, and may remove, assistant clerks of courts, as follows:

For the county of -

Barnstable, an assistant;

Bristol, an assistant, and a second assistant;

Essex, an assistant, a second assistant, a third assistant, a fourth assistant and a fifth assistant;

Hampden, an assistant, a second assistant and, subject to the approval of the county commissioners, a third assistant;

Middlesex, an assistant, a second assistant, a third assistant, a fourth assistant and a fifth assistant;

Norfolk, an assistant;

Plymouth, an assistant;

Suffolk, an assistant of the supreme judicial court;

Worcester, an assistant, a second assistant, a third assistant and a fourth assistant.

Assistant clerks of courts except in Suffolk county shall act as assistant clerks of the supreme judicial court, the superior court and the county commissioners.

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved April 29, 1946.