(a) The office of dockets Clerk of the Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama is hereby created, such clerk to be appointed by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and removable at any time the said judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals may see fit.
(b) The duties of such dockets clerk shall be to keep in regular order the dockets of the clerk’s office of the court, to enter from day today the judgments and proceedings of the court and to perform such duties as may be required by the judges of the court.
(c) The dockets Clerk of the Court of Criminal Appeals shall serve as confidential assistant to the court and shall be subject to the Merit System Act only as to the pay plan.