§ 8008. Fees and expenses of officer to be paid before transmission of
paper. Each provision of law requiring a judge, clerk or other officer
to transmit a paper to another officer, for the benefit of a party, is
to be construed as requiring the transmission only at the request of the
person so to be benefited, and upon payment by him of the fees allowed
by law for the paper transmitted, or any copy or certificate connected
therewith, and the expenses specified in section sixty-eight of the
public officers law.