Compensation.

The Clerk of the Twenty-third Judicial Circuit of Alabama shall receive an annual salary of seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars ($17,700) per annum for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1973, eighteen thousand nine hundred dollars ($18,900) per annum for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1974, and twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) per annum for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1975, and each year thereafter, which salary shall be paid in equal monthly installments from the General Fund of Madison County.

(Acts 1973, No. 1040, p. 1627, § 9.)