(1) (a) In every judicial district, the district attorney is authorized to appoint an assistant district attorney who shall be an attorney-at-law admitted to practice within this state and who shall actually have practiced law not less than two years.
(b) Repealed.
(c) The district attorney in every judicial district having a population not exceeding fifty thousand may appoint one part-time assistant district attorney. Such part-time assistant may engage in the private practice of law.
(2) Repealed.
(3) The salaries authorized by subsection (1) of this section shall be paid monthly and shall be paid by the counties comprising such judicial district out of the ordinary revenues of such counties. Every county shall pay in proportion as the population of such county bears to the whole population of such judicial district, according to the latest federal census.