New Jersey § acts:saved-40 - (18.1)

§ acts:saved-40. (18.1)

1. That all that part of the county of Bergen, as the same stood before the passing

of this act, contained within the following boundaries, viz.: beginning at the northeasterly

corner of the present township of Bergen, in the boundary line between this state

and the state of New York; thence running westwardly on the line which divides the

said township of Bergen from the township of Hackensack to the Hackensack river;

thence, down the middle of the said Hackensack river, to the middle of the turnpike

road of the New Barbadoes Toll Bridge Company; thence, westwardly along the middle

of the said turnpike road, in the various course thereof, to the middle of the abutment

of the bridge across the Passaic, opposite to the village of Acquackanunck; thence,

along the middle of said bridge to the point where it meets the line between the present

county of Passaic and Bergen; thence, down the said Passaic river and Newark bay,

in the several courses thereof, on the boundary lines between the county of Bergen,

as the same stood before the passing of this act, and the counties of Passaic and

Essex, to Kill-van-Kull; thence eastwardly, on the boundary line between this state

and the state of New York, to the Hudson river; thence, northwardly, continuing on

the said boundary line between this state and the state of New York, up the said Hudson

river to the place of beginning, be and the same is hereby erected into a separate

county, to be called the county of Hudson; and said lines shall hereafter be the

division lines between the counties of Essex, Passaic, and Bergen, and the state of

New York, and the said county of Hudson, respectively.