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General Laws c. 218, § 35 directs the clerk-magistrate to file a denied application for complaint separately from any criminal complaints and to “destroy such application one year after the date such application was filed, unless a justice of such court or the chief justice of the district courts shall for good cause order that such application be retained on file for a further period of time.”
 
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