New Jersey § acts:saved-15 - (28)

§ acts:saved-15. (28)

1. That when any tract of marsh or swamp is exposed to the overflow of the tide and

the same may admit of a division by one or more cross banks into separate parts, it

shall be lawful for the owners of more than one-half of any part of said marsh which

may be justly separated from the rest by a cross bank, to apply to the court of common

pleas of the county in which such marsh doth lie, as directed by the first section

of the act to which this is a supplement; upon which said court is required to appoint

three or more judicious and disinterested men, well acquainted with banking and improving

tide meadows, as commissioners, who shall view the premises, hear the parties applicant

and others interested; and if they think proper, lay out the cross banks, sluices

and floodgates and works requisite for securing the marsh or swamp from the overflow

of the tide in such place and places and directions as may appear reasonable and most

safe and beneficial to the owners of such part of the marsh and swamp which is proposed

to be secured from the overflow of the tide, subject to the like rules, regulations

and proceedings as required by the act and supplements to which this is a further

supplement.