(a) The District Attorney of the 32nd Judicial Circuit, which is composed of Cullman County only, shall appoint a clerical assistant or assistants who shall serve at his or her pleasure. Such clerical assistant or assistants shall perform such duties as the district attorney may prescribe and shall receive an annual salary to be set by the district attorney. The sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), annually, is hereby provided to the district attorney, for the payment of salaries of the clerical assistant or assistants, to be paid in equal installments as other county employees are paid, from the county general fund on warrants processed in the usual manner as other county employees.
