In addition to any salary paid by the state, the elected deputy circuit clerk serving the Bessemer Cut-Off Division of the Tenth Judicial Circuit shall be paid a supplemental salary from the county at the rate of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) per annum. The county commission shall pay such supplemental salary in equal biweekly installments from the general fund of the county.
Ala. Code § 45-37-80.02 (1975)