The offices of the clerk of the circuit and chancery courts may be held by the same person, in the discretion of the board of supervisors, in a county of not exceeding fifteen thousand (15,000) inhabitants.Codes, 1857, ch. 6, art 199; 1871, § 322; 1880, § 418; 1892, § 3073; 1906, § 3481; Hemingway's 1917, § 2819; 1930, § 2918; 1942, § 4064; Laws, 1968, ch. 361, § 4, eff. 1/1/1972.
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