New Jersey § acts:saved-12 - (1)

§ acts:saved-12. (1)

1. That a board of commissioners be nominated by the governor and confirmed by the senate,

to consist of six citizens of this state, who shall have power and whose duty it shall

be to cause the necessary surveys and examinations to be made by competent surveyors

of the lands lying under the waters of the bay of New York and of the Hudson river,

and of the lands adjacent thereto, the Kill von Kull, Newark bay, Arthur's kill, the

Raritan bay, and the lands lying under the water of the Delaware river, opposite to

the county of Philadelphia, the right to reclaim which has not been granted by the

state, and to obtain all needful information from other sources, in order to ascertain

the present rights of the state in the same, and the value of said rights; and to

fix and establish an exterior line in the said bays and rivers, beyond which no pier,

wharf, bulkhead, erection or permanent obstruction of any kind shall be permitted

to be made, and to report to the next legislature, on or before the first day of February

next, the result of the information thus obtained, and the value of the said rights,

together with the evidence upon which the same is founded; and second, that they

shall recommend to the legislature such plans and provisions for the improvement,

use, renting or leasing of the said lands under water as they shall deem necessary

for and most conducive to the interest of the state, and to have prepared, and submit

with their report, maps of said land exhibiting the exterior line fixed and established

by them in said bays and rivers, and the lines of the existing piers, wharves and

bulkheads, and also showing any grants of lands under the waters of said bays and

rivers which have not been occupied and also the original shore line as far as the

same can be ascertained, accompanied with such field notes, measurements and elucidations

as they shall deem necessary to a full exposition and understanding on the subject.