7-7-8Determination of population for county salary purposes.

The annual salaries of the county auditor, the county treasurer, and the register of deeds of the several counties of this state shall be regulated and fixed by the population of the several counties as shown by the last federal census.

Source: SL 1917, ch 188, § 1; RC 1919, § 5819; SL 1919, ch 148, § 2; SDC 1939, § 12.1705; SL 1961, ch 66, § 2.