Salaries.

The salary of each such law clerk shall not be in excess of the amount paid under the merit system classification to attorney I, step 3, such amount to be fixed by the Chief Justice or associate justice employing him, and he shall be paid out of the general funds of the state as other state employees are paid.

(Acts 1953, No. 443, p. 549, §3; Acts 1959, No. 594, p. 1483; Acts 1965, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 44, p. 64; Acts 1969, No. 323, p. 693; Acts 1971, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 117, p. 4342.)