Appellants contend that the population cannot now be determined by either statutory method, but that the only basis for fixing Perkins' salary is the population shown by the 1930 census. Both Sections 11786 and 11814, Revised Statutes 1929, make the compensation of circuit clerks in counties of the 10,000 to 15,000 population class, $1,250. There is still another section, 11808, Revised Statutes 1929, which provides: "For the purpose of determining the population of any county in this State, as a basis for ascertaining the salary of any county officer for any year, or the amount of fees he may retain, or the amount he shall be allowed to pay for deputies or assistants, the highest number of votes cast at the last previous general election, whether heretofore or hereafter held in such county, for any office, shall be multiplied by five, and the result shall be considered and held for the purpose aforesaid as the true population of such county." This section, which was 11016, Revised Statutes 1919, was enacted in 1887 (Laws 1887, p. 129), and has remained unchanged ever since, apparently being overlooked in 1921 when the other sections were amended. Appellants point out also statutes fixing other county officers' salaries, such as superintendent of schools and prosecuting attorney. Section 9465, Revised Statutes 1929, provides for the method of ascertaining population to determine the salary of the county superintendent of schools, multiplying the presidential vote by three and one-half. This was originally 11354, Revised Statutes 1919, which provided for multiplication by five but it was also amended in 1921 to provide for multiplication by three and one-half. [Laws 1921, p. 652.] Section 11314, Revised Statutes 1929, provides for the salary of prosecuting attorneys and for ascertaining the population by multiplying the presidential vote by five "until after the population of such county shall have been ascertained by the next decennial census of the United States." This court has recently held that the purpose of this provision was to put end to the further use of the presidential vote method in fixing salaries of prosecuting attorneys after a census was taken, and that thereafter the basis was the population shown by the current census. This section had also been amended in 1921 (Laws 1921, p. 574) to provide for the multiplication of the presidential vote by three. This amendment was held unconstitutional because it did not apply to all counties. [State ex rel. McCaffrey v. Bailey,308 Mo. 444, 272 S.W. 921.] The last Legislature has eliminated all of this conglomeration of methods by repealing all of the above-mentioned statutes and making the population shown the last previous decennial census of the United States the basis for determining the salaries of all of these county officers. [Laws 1933, pp. 178, 369, 384.] *Page 253