The county government may fix the compensation of clerks employed in the several county offices in all cases where clerical assistance is, by law, authorized to be employed in those offices and in respect of which no salary or compensation has been fixed by law.

32 Del. Laws, c. 85; Code 1935, § ?1208; 9 Del. C. 1953, § ?6113; 57 Del. Laws, c. 762, § ?5D;