(a) The Prosecuting Attorney of the Sixteenth Judicial District may be allowed the expenses of his office, including telephone, telegraph, postage, printing, office supplies and equipment, office rent, stationery, traveling expenses, special services, operation of automobiles, secretarial and clerical expenses, and other expenses which, within the discretion of the prosecuting attorney, may be a proper expense of the office and also including necessary expense in connection with any proper investigation incident to any criminal law violation or trials before any grand jury, or any court within the judicial district, coming within the duties of his office.
(b) Subject to approval of the several quorum courts, the expenses shall be borne by the counties comprising the Sixteenth Judicial District, as follows:
(1) Independence County forty percent (40%);
(2) Cleburne County twenty-seven percent (27%);
(3) Stone County eleven percent (11%);
(4) Izard County eleven percent (11%); and
(5) Fulton County eleven percent (11%).
(c) The expenses may be drawn in equal monthly installments or be contingent.
(d) The deputy prosecuting attorney for Stone County shall receive an annual salary of not less than twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) nor more than eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars ($18,800), as established by the Quorum Court of Stone County.