Alabama Dallas County Salaries, Amendment 24 (1957)

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The Alabama Dallas County Salaries, Amendment 24, also known as Amendment 24, was on the ballot in Alabama on December 17, 1957, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. The amendment proposed to amend the constitution. The amendment proposed that the legislature may, by general or local laws, fix, alter and regulate the fees, commissions, percentages, allowances and compensation to be charged or received by the judge of probate, tax assessor, tax collector, sheriff, coroner, register in chancery, circuit clerk, clerk-register and members of the court of county commissioners, board of revenue, or like governing body of Dallas County. The legislature shall also have the power and authority to place any of such officers on a salary and to provide that the fees, commissions, percentages and allowances collected by such officers shall be paid into the county treasury from which their salaries shall be paid. The compensation of any officer may be increased but not decreased.

Election results

Alabama Amendment 24 (December 1957)
Result		Votes	Percentage
a Yes		59,390	63.65%
No		33,914	36.35%

Election results via: Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1959

See also

Suggest a link

• Alabama 1957 ballot measures
• 1957 ballot measures
• List of Alabama ballot measures
• History of Initiative & Referendum in Alabama

External links

• Alabama Official and Statistical Register, 1959