Section 4. The said board shall divide the county into convenient districts, which it may change as occasion may require, and shall appoint subordinate assessors for said districts. The subordinate assessors shall receive such compensation as the salary board shall fix, which salaries shall be paid out of the county treasury. In addition to the compensation so fixed and paid by the county, any such subordinate assessor may be paid by any borough, township or school district in which he makes assessments, such compensation as may be authorized by the taxing authorities of such political subdivision, who are hereby empowered to make such additional payments as they may from time to time by ordinance or resolution prescribe. The said board shall also have the right to appoint an engineer or engineers and such clerks, at such salaries as the salary board of the county may allow, for the proper discharge of the duties of said board, which salaries shall be paid out of the county treasury.
(4 amended May 16, 1951, P.L.311, No.65)