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Alabama County Officers' Salaries, Amendment 2 (1915)
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The Alabama County Officers' Salaries, Amendment 2, also known as Amendment 2, was on the ballot in Alabama on November 7, 1915, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The amendment proposed the system by which Montgomery County officers would be paid, which took effect subsequent to the general election of November 1916. The system was as follows: the probate judge would receive $5,000 per annum and $5,500 per annum for office expenses, such as one clerk at $1,500 per annum or two clerks at $1,000 each per annum; or one clerk at $800 per annum and $1,200 for all other expenses, including extra clerks. The $1,200 was to be paid to the judge in monthly installments and disbursed by him.
The tax collector of Montgomery County would receive a salary of $4,000 per annum, a $1,500 allowance for his clerk and $1,000 for extra help. The county tax assessor would receive a salary of $4,000 per annum, $1,500 for a chief clerk, $900 for assistant clerk and $600 per annum for extra help.
The Montgomery County sheriff would receive a salary of $4,000 per annum, an allowance of $1,200 per annum for a chief clerk, $1,380 per annum for a chief deputy, $2,200 per annum for two deputies and $1,000 for extra assistance.
These amounts were to be paid out of the county treasury. These salaries would not interfere with payouts to the sheriff for extra guards at the county jail or bailiffs for the courts, nor with the provisions for feeding prisoners. Monthly salary payouts for county officers were to be collected on the first Monday of each month.[1]
Election results
| Alabama Amendment 2 (1915) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 53,207 | 55.65% | ||
| No | 42,411 | 44.35% | ||
Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1919
See also
- Alabama 1915 ballot measures
- 1915 ballot measures
- List of Alabama ballot measures
- History of Initiative & Referendum in Alabama
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