ยง 303. Provisions relating to stenographers applicable to assistant
stenographers. The provisions of the preceding sections of this article
and section thirteen of this chapter are also applicable to each
assistant-stenographer, now in office, or appointed or employed,
pursuant to any provision of this chapter or the civil practice act,
surrogate's court act or court of claims act; except that the
stenographic notes, taken by an assistant-stenographer, must, if he dies
or his office becomes otherwise vacant, be delivered to the
stenographer, to be held by him with like effect, as if they had been
taken by him.