New Jersey § acts:saved-15 - (51)

§ acts:saved-15. (51)

2. That when the owners of a majority of the number of acres of lands lying within the

bounds of each of such adjoining meadow banking companies, shall sign and acknowledge

in the manner required for the acknowledgment of deeds of lands an assent to a certificate

setting forth: first, the names of each of said companies which propose to consolidate,

and the township and county in which its meadow lands are located; second, the number

of taxable acres of lands lying within the bounds of each of said companies, the names

of each of the owners of said lands, and the number of taxable acres which each owner

may hold; third, a map of the said lands lying within the bounds of each of said

companies, showing their relation to each other and also the location of the banks,

dams, ditches, sluices and floodgates of the said companies, when consolidated; fourth,

that the said owners of a majority of taxable acres lying within the bounds of each

of said companies desires that said companies shall be consolidated, so that their

banks, sluices, ditches and other waterworks shall be erected and maintained by assessments

upon all the lands lying within the bounds of said consolidated company; fifth, the

name of said consolidated company; and having so signed and acknowledged said assenting

certificate, shall file the same in the office of the clerk of the county in which

said lands lie, the said several adjoining meadow banking companies shall then and

from thenceforth become and be consolidated under the name set forth in said certificate.