12:3-1 - Commissioners to make survey and report as to riparian lands, etc - New Jersey Statutes

12:3-1.  Commissioners to make survey and report as to riparian lands, etc.
    P.L.1864, c. 391, p. 681 (Rev.1877, pp. 981, 982, s.s. 1 to 6;  C.S. pp. 4383,  4384, s.s. 1 to 7), entitled  "An Act to ascertain the rights of the state and of  the riparian owners in the lands lying under the waters of the bay of New York,  and elsewhere in the state,"  approved April eleventh, one thousand eight  hundred and sixty-four, saved from repeal. [This act provides for the  appointment of a board of commissioners to cause to be made surveys of the  lands lying under the waters of the bay of New York, of the Hudson river and  the lands adjacent thereto, the Kill von Kull, Newark bay, Arthur Kill, Raritan  bay and the Delaware river opposite to the county of Philadelphia, not  theretofore granted by the state;  to ascertain the state's rights in the same  and the value thereof;  to fix the exterior line beyond which no permanent  obstruction should be permitted and to report to the legislature and recommend  a plan for the improvement, use, renting or leasing of said lands with maps of  said lands showing the said exterior line, the lines of existing piers, etc.,  and any grants of such lands not then occupied, with other appropriate information.]