Section 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.