Section 17-19-8

Compensation of electors.

Each elector for President and Vice-President shall receive $8.00 for each day he necessarily attends at the seat of government, and $.20 for every mile traveled to and from the same, to be estimated in the same manner as is provided by law in relation to members of the Legislature from his county, to be paid, on oath of such elector, by warrant on the Treasurer.

(Code 1876, §347; Code 1886, §440; Code 1896, §1658; Code 1907, §451; Code 1923, §541; Code 1940, T. 17, §227.)