§ 28. Compensation, expenses, employees. Such secretaries shall
receive an annual salary to be fixed by the appointing officer within
the amount appropriated therefor and shall be paid their office,
traveling and other expenses necessarily incurred by them in the
performance of their duties. The chairman of the finance committee of
the senate and the chairman of the ways and means committee of the
assembly may each appoint for the committee of which he is chairman such
accounting, clerical and stenographic employees as may be necessary to
assist such committee and the secretaries thereof in performing the
duties prescribed by this article. The compensation of such employees
shall be fixed by the appointing officer within the amount appropriated
therefor.

Expenditures made from appropriations by the legislature for the
senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee may
include studies and surveys and for expenses of maintenance and
operation including personal service and the expenses of the
chairpersons while in travel in the performance of committee duties or
while in Albany during the recess of the legislature, the traveling
expenses of the employees of such committees while visiting state
institutions or performing other committee duties, and the purchase or
exchange, maintenance or hiring of automobiles.