Election of county clerk.
The provisions for the election of a County Clerk upon a population basis are hereby abolished and there may be elected a County Clerk in like manner as a Circuit Clerk, and in such cases, the County Clerk may be ex officio Clerk of the Probate Court of such county until otherwise provided by the General Assembly.
Publisher's Notes. This amendment was proposed by House Joint Resolution, No. 3 (see Acts 1951, p. 970) and filed in the office of the Secretary of State on March 20, 1951. It was approved at the general election on Nov. 4, 1952, by a vote of 178,278 for and 123,245 against.
The amendment contained a preliminary paragraph which read "That the Constitution of the State of Arkansas be amended modifying Section 19 of Article 7 and Section 3 of Amendment No. 24 of said Constitution, so as to provide for the election of a County Clerk in all of the said counties of the State, as follow: . . .."
Amendment 80 to the Arkansas Constitution, adopted by voter referendum and effective July 1, 2001, established circuit courts as the trial courts of original jurisdiction of all justiciable matters not otherwise assigned pursuant to the Constitution and specifically provided that "jurisdiction conferred on Circuit Courts established by this Amendment includes all matter previously cognizable by Circuit, Chancery, Probate and Juvenile Courts...".