New Jersey § acts:saved-15 - (4)

§ acts:saved-15. (4)

4. That the president and managers of any company formed in pursuance of this act, shall,

within one year after the organization of the same as aforesaid, make or cause to

be made a survey of the exterior limits or boundaries of such body or tract of land

over which the tidewater flows, and which may be reclaimed, and shall cause each owner's

share within said limits to be strictly measured, and a correct plot or map of the

same to be made, exhibiting the entire bounds of the survey, as also the owner's name

and number of acres held by each owner respectively and after they have made or caused

to be made such a survey and map as aforesaid, they shall give ten days' notice in

writing to each of the owners of said land, or by three weeks' notice by advertisement

in one or more newspapers printed and published in the county wherein said lands are

situated, that a meeting of the owners of said lands will be held in the city, borough,

or township nearest to the place where said lands lie, at a certain time and place

in said notice to be named, and that they will then and there have present said survey

and map; and that said president and managers shall, at such meeting so called, make

a public exhibit of their said survey and map, with the names of the owners and the

number of acres owned by each as aforesaid, and shall hear any objections that may

be made to the same, and shall make such corrections and amendments thereto as the

said president and managers, or a majority of them, shall deem just and right, which

said survey and map, corrected and amended, if any corrections or amendments thereto

be made, shall be indorsed with a certificate of said president and managers, or a

majority of them, that said survey and map is correct and true according to the best

of their skill and understanding, and the same shall be filed with the clerk of the

county where such lands are situate, and the same so filed shall be final and conclusive

against all parties concerned, and shall be the basis upon which all assessments of

taxes for the purposes of this act shall be made.