Section 23-15-791 - Allowance to electors for travel and for attendance

Each elector shall be allowed the sum of Four Dollars ($4.00) for every twenty (20) miles of travel, to be estimated by the usual land route, in going from his home to and returning from the seat of government to give his vote, and Four Dollars ($4.00) for every day he shall attend there as an elector, to be paid by the State Treasurer, on the warrant of the auditor.Derived from 1972 Code § 23-5-215 [Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 7, art 4 (5); 1857, ch. 4, art 43; 1880, § 169; 1892, § 3703; 1906, § 4210; Hemingway's 1917, § 6846; 1930, § 6272; 1942, § 3301; repealed by Laws, 1986, ch. 495, § 335]; Laws, 1986, ch. 495, § 246, eff. 1/1/1987.