New Jersey § acts:saved-15 - (56)

§ acts:saved-15. (56)

1. Whenever the banks, waterworks or watercourses along or within the bounds of any

meadow company, formed under the act to which this is a supplement or any act supplementary

thereto or amendatory thereof, shall have been or shall be laid off to the respective

owners or possessors to maintain, uphold or repair, and at any annual or special meeting

of said company the owners or possessors of more than one-half of such meadow shall

vote in favor of defraying the expenses of laying out, erecting, making, maintaining

and repairing the banks, dams, sluices, floodgates and other works, and all the general

watercourses and every other necessary expense for the benefit of the company by a

general tax, laid, enforced and collected in accordance with the provisions of the

act to which this is a supplement, the expenses aforesaid shall thereafter be defrayed

by a tax, laid, enforced and collected as aforesaid, and it shall thereupon become

the duty of the managers of said company, in addition to the duties theretofore required

of such managers by law, to cause or procure the making, maintaining and repair of

the banks, dams, sluices, floodgates and other works, and all general watercourses

to be made or done under the supervision of such managers and the cost and expense

thereof to be assessed, enforced and collected as aforesaid.