Compensation.

Each member of the Board of Equalization of Lauderdale County shall be paid the sum of thirty-five dollars ($35) per day for the time actually engaged in the discharge of his or her duties as such member, to be paid by warrants drawn on the county treasurer on order of the county commission. The cost of such sums, to the extent that they exceed the amounts authorized under Section 40-3-8, shall be borne equally to the county and municipality.

(Act 79-811, p. 1499, §1.)