§ 170. Power of supreme court justices in Rockland county to appoint
court officer or attendant. The justice or justices of the supreme
court, residing in Rockland county, may appoint, and at pleasure remove,
a court officer or attendant, to attend at the judge's chambers in such
county, and the special terms of the supreme court, held at such
chambers; such court officer or attendant to receive a salary to be
fixed by such resident justice, or justices, not exceeding six hundred
dollars per annum, to be paid monthly by the county treasurer of such
county, upon the certificate of such justice or justices.