Section 36-21-22
Compensation of municipal police when called into service of state by Governor.
Such police, patrolmen and officers drawn into the service of the state at the call of the Governor shall be paid their reasonable expenses incurred in and about the service when approved by the Governor and as compensation such sums as they were at the time receiving from the municipality they were serving at the time of their call for service by the Governor.
(Acts 1919, No. 170, p. 163, §2; Code 1923, §922; Code 1940, T. 55, §376.)