Section 269 - Salary of clerks to justices of appellate division of first and second departments1. Each of the clerks appointed pursuant to section ninety-six of this chapter by the justices of the appellate division of the first and second departments shall receive as salary a sum to be fixed by the justices of each appellate division.2. Except as provided in the state finance law, each of the presiding justices of the appellate divisions of the first and second departments shall certify such salaries to the state comptroller who shall audit the same. The state department of taxation and finance shall pay such salaries in equal biweekly installments, and shall apportion the total amount of each department among the counties comprising each judicial department. Such counties shall reimburse the state therefor. 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.