Section 36-16-3
Assistants and clerical help.
The Auditor may employ a chief clerk, whose employment shall be at the pleasure of the Auditor. Subject to the provisions of the Merit System, he may employ principal accountants, account clerks and senior stenographers.
(Code 1867, §95; Code 1876, §88; Code 1886, §99; Code 1896, §1998; Code 1907, §602; Acts 1923, No. 600, p. 789, §4; Code 1923, §809; Acts 1932, Ex. Sess., No. 104, p. 99, §4 1/2; Acts 1933, Ex. Sess., No. 138, p. 124, §1; Acts 1939, No. 452, p. 608, §3; Code 1940, T. 55, §207.)