SECTION 1. The Circuit Court Clerk in counties having a population of not less than 28,200 nor more than 28,300, according to the United States Census of Population of 1970 or any subsequent United States Census of Population, may employ the necessary clerical help for his office. Any person so employed shall be paid an annual salary of not less than four thousand eight hundred dollars ($4,800) nor more than six thousand dollars ($6,000), the amount to be fixed by the Quarterly County Court of the county. The salary thus fixed shall be paid in equal monthly installments on the first day of each month out of the general fund of the county, by warrant of the County Judge or Chairman of the Quarterly County Court or the Trustee.
SECTION 2. Chapter 566 of the Private Acts of 1953 is repealed.
SECTION 3. This Act shall have no effect unless it is approved by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the Quarterly County Court of any county to which it may apply before December 1, 1971. Its approval or non-approval shall be proclaimed by the presiding officer of such Quarterly Court and certified by him to the Secretary of State.
SECTION 4. For the purpose of approving or disapproving this Act as provided in Section 3, it shall take effect on becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it, but the other provisions of the Act shall be effective only upon being approved as provided in Section 3.
Passed: April 14, 1971.