Due to the substantial increase in the duties and responsibilities required of the members of the Cullman County Commission due to this article, each respective associate commissioner shall receive a salary supplement of four hundred dollars ($400) per month, and the chair of the commission shall receive a salary supplement of four hundred fifty-five dollars ($455) per month which shall be in addition to any other salary or expense allowance otherwise provided by law and shall be paid from the Cullman County treasury.
Ala. Code § 45-22-130.20 (1975)