Constitution of Arkansas (2025 publisher edition) — Amendment 15: [REPEALED.]

Publisher edition notice: This collection preserves the complete constitutional appendix of the Secretary of State’s 2025 Election Laws and Constitution compilation: its preamble, twenty original articles, schedule and 104 published amendments, including annotations and explicit repealed notices. Repealed notices remain historical publisher context. Later amendments have not been independently verified.

Amendment 15

AMEND. 15. [REPEALED.]
Publisher’s Notes. Ark. Const. Amend. 94, which re-
pealed this amendment effective November 5, 2014, was
proposed by H.J.R. 1009 during the 2013 Regular Session
and adopted at the November 2014 general election by a
vote of 428,206 for and 388,459 against.
Before repeal, this amendment read:
“Salaries of state officials.
“The annual salaries of the State and District Officers
hereinafter mentioned, which shall be paid in monthly
installments, shall be as follows:
“For Governor, the sum of $6,000.00; for Secretary of
State, the sum of $4,000.00; for Treasurer of the State, the
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sum of $4,000.00; for Auditor of the State, the sum of
$4,000.00; for Attorney General, the sum of $5,000.00; for
Judge of the Circuit Courts and Chancellors, each, the sum
of $3,600.00.
“The members of the General Assembly shall receive as
their salary the sum of One Thousand ($1,000.00) Dollars,
except the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who
shall receive his salary of Eleven Hundred Dollars
($1,100.00), for each period of two (2) years; and in addition
to such salary the members of the general Assembly shall
receive five cents per mile for each mile traveled in going to
and returning from the seat of government over the most
direct and practicable route, and provided further that
when said members are required to attend an extraordi-
nary session of the General Assembly they shall receive in
addition to the salary herein provided the sum of 6.00 per
day for each day they are required to attend, and mileage
at the rate herein provided.”
Amendment 15 was proposed by the General Assembly
at the 1927 regular session (see Acts 1927, p. 1189). It was
approved at the general election on Nov. 6, 1928, by a vote
of 94,528 for and 56,042 against.
The amendment was held to be superseded by Ark.
Const. Amend. 37 in Berry v. Gordon, 237 Ark. 547 and 865,
376 S.W.2d 276 (1964). Ark. Const. Amend. 37 was re-
pealed by Ark. Const. Amend. 56, § 5.
For current provision concerning salaries, see Ark.
Const., Art. 19, § 31.