N.Y. Public Officers Law § 68: Allowance of additional fees and expenses

§ 68. Allowance of additional fees and expenses. Where an officer or

other person is required, in the course of a duty imposed upon him by

law, to take an oath, to acknowledge an instrument, to cause an

instrument to be filed or recorded, or to transmit a paper to another

officer, he is entitled, in addition to the fees, or other compensation

for the service, prescribed by law, to the fees necessarily paid by him,

to the officer who administered the oath, or took the acknowledgment, or

filed or recorded the instrument; and to the expense of transmitting the

paper, including postage, where the transmission is lawfully made

through the post-office.