Register of nonresident clergy performing marriages, 1929-1965.

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Register of nonresident clergy performing marriages, 1929-1965.

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The state secretary (since 1961 through a unit currently called the Commissions Section) attests to all commissions of office signed by the governor, administering the oath of office to and/or recording the name of these and other public appointees. In a related function, the secretary is responsible for issuing qualification certificates to nonresident clergy to perform marriages in Massachusetts pursuant to St 1926, c 102, as amended (MGLA c 207, s 39). This register was created as the secretary's record of such certificates issued.

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