New Jersey § acts:saved-15 - (57)

§ acts:saved-15. (57)

2. Whenever in any meadow company formed as aforesaid the meadows shall have been or

shall be subjected to the overflowing of the tide in accordance with the provisions

of any supplement to said act and said company shall at any annual or special meeting,

by a vote of the owners of more than one-half of such meadows, decide that said meadow

shall be taken in, banked, and sluices and other waterworks erected and maintained

therein, it shall be lawful for the managers of said company to apply to the court

of common pleas of the county in which said meadows lie, upon which application said

court shall appoint three judicious and disinterested men, well acquainted with banking

and improving tide meadows, as commissioners; which commissioners, when so appointed,

after giving notice of the time and place of meeting, shall view the premises and

hear the parties and lay out or relay the bank, dam, sluices, floodgates or other

works necessary for securing the marsh or swamp from the overflow of the tide in such

place or places as may appear most safe and beneficial to the whole of the owners

of the marsh or swamp intended to be secured from the overflow of the tide, and make

an actual survey thereof, describing the place of beginning, courses and distances,

and places where the sluice or sluices or floodgates shall be laid, and where the

bank or dam shall join the fast land; and shall cause all the lots and parcels of

the marsh, meadow, ground or swamp belonging to each owner so overflowed by the tide

and lying within the bounds of the proposed bank or dam and waterworks to be carefully

and strictly measured and a draught or plot to be made showing the quantity held by

each owner, and make a valuation of the meadow ground of each owner separately, and

shall deliver a certificate of their proceedings, signed by a majority of them, to

the managers of said meadow company, to be held by such managers and delivered from

time to time to their successors in office.