Section 36-2-8
When commissions to be issued.
No commissioned officer of this state required by law to give bond shall receive his commission until he has made his bond and had the same properly approved and filed. In all other cases, commissions may issue on the production of the certificate of election to the person therein named.
(Code 1876, §296; Code 1886, §247; Code 1896, §3060; Code 1907, §1471; Code 1923, §2581; Code 1940, T. 41, §12.)