The constitution provides that the state shall be divided into nine judicial districts, for each of which a judge shall be chosen; and there shall be held a superior court in each county, at least twice iu each year, to continue for such time in each county as may be prescribed by law. But the general assembly may reduce or increase the number of the districts. Art. IY, §10.
By section 910 of The Code, two superior courts a year have been assigned to each county of the state, except the counties of *117Wake, Cumberland and Robeson; to Wake, -two additional terms are given, and to Cumberland and Robeson, one additional term to each.
By section 3784 of The Code, it is provided that “the judges •of the superior court shall each have an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars in full compensation for all judicial duties assigned them by the general assembly; and for the holding of a special or additional term of the superior court, the judge presiding shall receive one hundred dollars for each week, to be paid by the county in which the special term is held, on the production of the certificate of the clerk of the court aforesaid.”
In order to ascertain which of the four terms of the superior court of Wake are to be regarded as additional terms, it is necessary to refer to the law as it existed before The Code went into operation. And we find on reference to (he act of 1872-’73, that the January and June terms of the court were created as additional terms for that county. The judges are therefore entitled, by virtue of section 3734, to one hundred dollars per week for holding the January aud June terms of the superior court for said county, to be paid by the commissioners of said county.
It will be noticed that there is in section 910 a special provision that the expense of holding the additional terms in Cumberland and Robeson shall be defrayed by the commissioners of those counties respectively, but no such provision is made with respect to the county of Wake, for the reason, we presume, that the legislature supposed that the expense of holding the additional terms in that county had already been provided for in the fourth section of the act of 1872-73, which, being of a local nature, vras saved from repeal by section 3873 of The Code.
There is no error. The judgment of the superior court is affirmed.
No error. Affirmed.