Section 311. Appointment of assistant stenographer in Kings county

A
  stenographer, appointed as prescribed in subdivision one of section  one
  hundred  and  fifty-nine  of this chapter by the justices of the supreme
  court residing in the county of Kings, may,  with  the  consent  of  the
  judge  holding  or  presiding  at a special or trial term of the supreme
  court, employ an assistant-stenographer to aid him in the  discharge  of
  his  duties  at  that  term,  whose  compensation  must  be  paid by the
  stenographer and shall not become a county charge.