Each elector for President and Vice President shall receive eight dollars ($8) for each day he or she necessarily attends at the seat of government, and twenty cents ($.20) for every mile traveled to and from the same, to be estimated in the same manner as is provided by law in relation to members of the Legislature from his or her county, to be paid, on oath of such elector, by warrant on the Treasurer.
Ala. Code § 17-14-37 (1975)