Section 703-A. Employment of stenographer

Whenever the district attorney of
  any  county  in  the  performance  of  his  duties  shall be required to
  prosecute a contested criminal proceeding before a magistrate of a  town
  or  village, unless pursuant to law a stenographer be regularly employed
  by such magistrate or in the court over which he presides, said district
  attorney may employ a stenographer to take the testimony on such  trial.
  The  board  of  supervisors  of  each  county  shall  fix  the  rate  of
  compensation to be paid to such stenographer for such services rendered;
  and in addition thereto such stenographer shall be entitled to and shall
  be allowed for a copy of testimony furnished to  the  district  attorney
  the  same  rate  per folio as is now allowed to the stenographers of the
  county court in their respective counties, and such  stenographer  shall
  receive  the  same compensation for all copies of the evidence in excess
  of three  copies  furnished  by  him  to  the  district  attorney.  Such
  compensation  shall  be  a  county charge, and shall be audited and paid
  upon the affidavit of  the  stenographer  and  the  certificate  of  the
  district  attorney  specifying  the number of days of actual service and
  the number of folios furnished.