New Jersey § acts:saved-40 - (41.5)

§ acts:saved-40. (41.5)

5. That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall establish the line of partition

between said counties, or such part thereof as to them shall seem necessary; in doing

which, they shall have regard for the line anciently and most generally accepted by

the people living on the border between the two counties, unless authentic records

or documents shall be produced showing that a different line should be established;

and when the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have established the

line as aforesaid, they shall cause the same to be run, surveyed and marked with substantial

stone monuments; which survey, certified under their hands, or under the hands of

a majority of them, shall be annexed to the record of their proceedings, together

with their oath of office, and shall be delivered to the secretary of state, to be

by him recorded and filed; and a copy of such survey, certified by the president

and the clerk of said commissioners, shall be delivered to the clerk of each of the

counties of Bergen and Passaic, to be by them recorded and filed in their respective

offices; the line so established, run, surveyed, marked, certified, recorded and

filed, shall be and hereby is declared to be the boundary and line of partition between

the said counties.