Salary.

The salary of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of Alabama shall be fixed under the provisions of the merit system at the maximum paid to attorneys in the classified service and shall be payable out of the treasury as the salaries of other state officers are paid.

(Code 1907, §5991; Code 1923, §10327; Acts 1927, No. 612, p. 710; Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 138, p. 124; Code 1940, T. 13, §57; Acts 1943, No. 423, p. 389, §1; Acts 1951, No. 591, p. 1024; Acts 1957, No. 606, p. 864; Acts 1967, No. 728, p. 1563.)