§ 95. Appointment of clerical and other assistants of appellate division in second department. The justices of the appellate division of the supreme court in the second judicial department, or a majority of them, are authorized to appoint and at pleasure remove deputy clerks and other necessary assistants and attendants, and to prescribe the duties and fix the salaries thereof. Except as provided in the state finance law, such salaries shall be certified by the presiding justice of such appellate division to the state comptroller who shall audit the same. The state department of taxation and finance shall pay such salaries in equal semi-monthly instalments, and shall apportion the total amount thereof among the counties comprising the second judicial department. Such counties shall reimburse the state for such salaries. 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.