Section 303. Provisions relating to stenographers applicable to assistant stenographers

The provisions of the preceding sections of this  article
  and  section  thirteen  of  this  chapter  are  also  applicable to each
  assistant-stenographer,  now  in  office,  or  appointed  or   employed,
  pursuant  to  any  provision  of this chapter or the civil practice act,
  surrogate's  court  act  or  court  of  claims  act;  except  that   the
  stenographic notes, taken by an assistant-stenographer, must, if he dies
  or   his   office   becomes   otherwise  vacant,  be  delivered  to  the
  stenographer, to be held by him with like effect, as if  they  had  been
  taken by him.