§ 316. Compensation of stenographers appointed by certain justices of
supreme court in third and fourth judicial districts. Each stenographer
appointed pursuant to subdivision five of section one hundred fifty-nine
of this chapter, by a justice of the supreme court assigned to hold
special terms in the third or fourth judicial districts, shall receive a
salary, fixed by the justice making the appointment, not exceeding three
thousand dollars per annum and also a reasonable sum for actual
necessary expenses while traveling to and from said terms, and while
attending court, including stationery, equipment and supplies necessary
to the transaction of the duties of such stenographer. The salaries and
expenses of each such stenographer shall be audited by the state
comptroller and paid by the state department of taxation and finance in
equal quarterly payments when certified to such comptroller by the
justice who made the appointment or in case of his death or disability,
by any other justice of the same judicial district as such justice. Such
department shall apportion the total amount of the salaries and actual
necessary expenses of the stenographer or stenographers appointed in the
third judicial district and of the stenographer or stenographers
appointed in the fourth judicial district among the counties comprising
the third and fourth judicial districts respectively. Such counties
shall reimburse the state therefor. The time and method of such
apportionments and the time and method of such reimbursement shall be as
specified in section seventy-four of this chapter.