Section 281. Salary of confidential clerks to county judges of Kings, Queens, Erie, Nassau, Onondaga, Rockland, Dutchess and Saint Lawrence counties and to special county judge of Erie county

Each of the
  confidential  clerks  appointed  pursuant   to   section   one   hundred
  ninety-seven  of  this  chapter by the county judges of Kings and Queens
  counties shall receive for their  services  the  same  aggregate  annual
  salary  paid to the clerks to judges of the court of general sessions of
  the county of New York, so as to maintain a continuing  equalization  of
  the  gross  salary  and compensation paid to such clerk.  Such salary or
  compensation shall be paid by the comptroller of the city of  New  York,
  in equal monthly installments. The confidential clerk appointed pursuant
  to  said section by the county judge of Erie county and the confidential
  clerk appointed pursuant to said section by the special county judge  of
  Erie  county  shall  receive  such salary as shall be fixed from time to
  time by the board of supervisors of said  county,  to  be  paid  by  the
  treasurer  of  the  county  of  Erie  in equal monthly installments. The
  confidential clerk appointed pursuant to  said  section  by  the  county
  judges  of  Nassau county, Onondaga county, Rockland county and Dutchess
  county shall receive such salary as shall be fixed from time to time  by
  the respective boards of supervisors of said counties, to be paid by the
  treasurers   of   said  counties  in  equal  monthly  installments.  The
  confidential clerk appointed pursuant to  said  section  by  the  county
  judge  of  Saint Lawrence county shall receive a salary of three hundred
  dollars per annum, to be paid by the treasurer of the  county  of  Saint
  Lawrence, in equal monthly installments.