Massachusetts Constitution > Part II > Chapter II Section IV > Article I
[The secretary, treasurer and receiver-general, and the commissary-general, notaries public, and naval officers, shall be chosen annually, by joint ballot of the senators and representatives in one room. And that the citizens of this commonwealth may be assured, from time to time, that the moneys remaining in the public treasury, upon the settlement and liquidation of the public accounts, are their property, no man shall be eligible as treasurer and receiver-general more than five years successively.] [See Amendments, Arts. XVII, LXIV, LXXIX, LXXX and LXXXII.] [For provision as to appointment of notaries public and the commisary-general, see Amendments, Arts. IV, LIII and LVII; see also Amendments, Art. LXIX.]
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