New Jersey § acts:saved-40 - (28.1)

§ acts:saved-40. (28.1)

1. That all that part of the county of Essex, as the same stood before the passage of

this act, contained within the following boundaries, viz.: beginning on the sound

leading from Elizabethtown Point to Amboy, at the easternmost point in the division

line between the counties of Essex and Middlesex; thence northeasterly along the

eastern line of Essex county to the southeast point in the division line of the township

of Clinton; thence westerly along the division line between the township of Clinton

and city of Elizabeth, to the division line between the townships of Clinton and Union;

thence along the northerly and westerly line of division between the townships of

Union and Clinton to the northerly division line of the township of Springfield;

thence down the east branch of the Rahway river to the junction of the east and west

branches of said river; thence up the west branch of said Rahway river to the mouth

of William and Abner Stites' mill race; thence along said mill race to William and

Abner Stites' mill pond; thence along the middle of said pond or ponds to the mouth

of the brook that runs south and near to Wellington Campbell's paper mill; thence

up said brook to the new road near said Wellington Campbell's mill dam; thence up

said new road to the center line of the said Morris turnpike; thence up the said

center line of the said turnpike to the Passaic river; thence along said line to

the northerly division line of the township of New Providence; thence along the north

and west division line of the township of New Providence to the division line of the

township of Plainfield; thence along the westerly and southerly division line of

the township of Plainfield to the division line between the counties of Essex and

Middlesex; thence easterly along the division line between said counties to the place

of beginning on the sound; including and intending to include within the said metes

and bounds all that part of the county of Essex now contained within the city of Elizabeth

and the townships of Rahway, Union, Westfield, Plainfield, New Providence, and that

portion of the township of Springfield included within the boundary lines hereinbefore

described, be and the same is hereby erected into a separate county, to be called

the county of Union; and said lines shall hereafter be the division lines between

the counties of Essex, Somerset, Morris, Middlesex, and the said county of Union,

respectively.