Alabama County Budget, Amendment 6 (August 1956)

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The Alabama County Budget, Amendment 6, also known as Amendment 6, was on the ballot in Alabama on November 6, 1956, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was defeated. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed that the legislature may fix, alter, and regulate the costs and charges of court and the fees, commissions, percentages, allowances and compensation to be charged or received by the judge of probate, sheriff, clerk and register of the Circuit Court, tax assessor, and tax collector of Colbert County, or any other County officer on a fee basis, and may place any of such officers, on a salary, and provide that the fees, commissions, percentages, and allowances collected by such officers would be paid into the County treasury from which their salaries shall be paid.

Election results

Alabama Amendment 6 (1956)
Result		Votes	Percentage
d No		115,952	54.97%
Yes		94,983	45.03%

Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1959

See also

Suggest a link

• Alabama 1956 ballot measures
• 1956 ballot measures
• List of Alabama ballot measures
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Alabama

External links

• Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1959