§ 173-b. Power of supreme court justices of the eight judicial
district to appoint a confidential law assistant to such justices. The
justices of the supreme court of the eighth judicial district, or a
majority of them, may appoint and at pleasure remove and prescribe the
duties of a confidential law assistant to such justices. Such
confidential law assistant shall be an attorney and counsellor at law
and shall receive such salary as shall be fixed by such justices, or a
majority of them. Such salary shall be audited by the state comptroller
and paid by the state department of taxation and finance in equal
semi-monthly installments when certified to such comptroller by a
justice of the supreme court of the eighth judicial district. Such
department shall apportion the amount of such salary among the counties
of the eighth judicial district. Such counties shall reimburse the state
therefor. The time and method of such apportionment and the time and
method of such reimbursement shall be as specified in section
seventy-four of this chapter.