Section 122. Compensation of official referees

Every official referee
  continued in office and serving under the  provisions  of  this  article
  shall  receive  as  compensation one-half of the amount now or hereafter
  paid to the  incumbent  of  the  office  which  he  held  prior  to  his
  retirement;   provided,  however,  that  any  official  referee  of  the
  municipal court of the city of New York in the first or second  judicial
  department   so  continued  in  office  shall  receive  as  compensation
  three-fourths of the amount paid to the incumbent of the office which he
  held prior to his retirement. Any official referee of the city court  of
  the  city  of  New  York who is serving as such on April tenth, nineteen
  hundred  forty-six,  shall  be  entitled  to  receive  as  compensation,
  two-thirds  of  the  amount paid to the incumbent of the office which he
  held prior to his retirement. Any official referee of the supreme  court
  heretofore  or  hereafter appointed who shall be assigned for service as
  such official referee in any county outside of  the  county  wherein  he
  resides,  and  any official referee of the court of appeals who shall be
  assigned for service as such official referee in any county  outside  of
  the  county  wherein  he  resides,  shall  receive  in  addition  to the
  compensation provided for by this chapter, his actual traveling expenses
  from his residence to the  place  in  such  county  where  he  has  been
  assigned  for  services  as  such official referee and, if such place is
  less than twenty-five miles from his residence, the sum of  ten  dollars
  per  diem  and  if such place where he has been so assigned is more than
  twenty-five miles from his residence the sum of twenty dollars per  diem
  and  he  shall receive such additional moneys during the time that he is
  actually engaged in rendering services as an official  referee  in  such
  county.  The  manner of payment of such compensation and its sources are
  to be the same as in the case of the incumbent of the office from  which
  such official referee has retired.