Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 3. Office of county judge has been created in the counties named. The office of county judge has been created since the Code in the counties named below by the acts annexed to each, as follows: Claiborne?1903, ch. 101. Clay ?1903, ch. 145. Cumberland ? 1897, ch. 273. DIckson ? 1901, ch. 404. Grainger?1903, ch. 555. Henderson ?1903, chs. 26, 68. Lauderdale ? 1903, ch. 397. Lawrence ? 1901, ch. 311. Maury?1899, ch. 265; 1903, ch. 148. Meigs ?1899, ch. 128, but repealed by 1899, ch. 241. Monroe ?1897, ch. 179, but repealed by 1901, ch. 355. Union ?1901, ch. 201. 387-391. Probate court of Shelby county is a county court, and judge's salary is payable by county. The probate court of Shelby county, created and established by the statute contained in sections 387 to 391, inclusive, of the Code, is unquestionably a county court, and the provision in the statute (Code, sec. 391) that the judge thereof shall be paid out of the county treasury is valid. Colbert v. Bond, 2 Cates, 370, 375, 390, 391. 393-394. DISTRICT ATTORNEYS. Assistant to district attorney cannot be invested with powers of office. The district attorney-general is not authorized by the constitution to appoint a deputy or assistant, and a statute authorizing a general delegation of the functions of the office to an assistant, or investing him with power to perform other than clerical duties, must be held to be unconstitutional, because all indictments must be signed by the district attorney-general, and all judicial acts or quasi judicial acts of his office must be performed by him, or in his presence, and under his personal direction or supervision. Acts 1897, ch. 24, compiled under sections 5768-5771, post, page 764, authorizing the appointment of an assistant in counties having a population of 50,000 or m...