The chair and each member of the Jackson County Commission shall be paid an additional one hundred dollars ($100) per month for nine consecutive months following October 1, 1979. Thereafter, such allowance shall be decreased to one dollar ($1) per month and shall so continue for each commissioner until the expiration of the terms of office of the respective members. Upon the expiration of the terms of office of the respective members of the county commission the expense allowance for each member shall be in the same amount provided by law prior to October 1, 1979. Such expense allowance shall be paid on the same basis as now provided by law for expense allowances.
Ala. Code § 45-36-180.12 (1975)