There shall be, in the counties where such an office now exists, a county prosecuting attorney, elected in the county at each general election for state and county officers. The several counties in the state shall have the right to come from under and within the provisions of this chapter in the manner hereinafter provided.Codes, Hemingway's 1917, § 691; Laws, 1916, ch. 238; 1930, § 4220; 1942, § 3910.
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