Section 11-2-4

Payment of premiums on bonds.

The premiums on all bonds of all county officers and employees required by the provisions of this Code, when made by surety companies shall be paid by the respective counties out of the general funds of said county; except, that the premiums on the bonds of the superintendent of education and of the custodian of county public school funds shall be paid by the board of education of said county out of the three mill school tax, and the premiums on all bonds of $1,000.00 or less shall be paid by the officer making said bond.

(Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 191, p. 203; Code 1940, T. 41, §96.)