§ 94. Appointment of clerical and other assistants of appellate division in first department. The justices of the appellate division of the supreme court in the first judicial department, or a majority of them, are authorized to appoint and at pleasure remove a clerk, deputy clerk and all necessary other assistants in said court and to prescribe the duties and fix the salaries thereof. Except as provided in the state finance law, such salaries and all other necessary expenses of such appellate division, shall be audited by the state comptroller out of moneys appropriated therefor by law. The state department of taxation and finance shall pay such salaries in equal biweekly installments and shall apportion the total amount of such salaries and expenses among the counties comprising the first judicial department. Such counties shall reimburse the state for such salaries and expenses. The time and method of such reimbursement shall be as specified in section seventy-four of this chapter. Provided, however, that the present deputy clerk, assistant clerks, confidential clerk, typewriter operators, crier and assistant to the crier of said appellate division shall be continued in office.