The attorney general and reporter and all of the assistants shall be paid their necessary expenses incurred on business for the state, in like manner as their compensation, when there have been filed with the commissioner of finance and administration an itemized statement certified by the officer incurring the expenses. This statement, in case of assistants, shall be approved by the attorney general and reporter.Acts 1929, ch. 22, § 4; Code 1932, § 9953; impl. am. Acts 1937, ch. 33, §§ 24, 29; impl. am. Acts 1959, ch. 9, § 3; impl. am. Acts 1961, ch. 97, § 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 8-605.
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