52:28-12 - Location of boundary line - New Jersey Statutes

52:28-12.  Location of boundary line
    First.  The line extending from the Hudson river on the east to the Delaware  on the west, as the same was laid down and marked with monuments in seventeen  hundred and seventy-four, by William Wickham and Samuel Cale, commissioners on  the part of the then colony of New York, duly appointed for that purpose in  pursuance of an act of the assembly of the colony of New York, passed on the  sixteenth day of February, seventeen hundred and seventy-one, entitled  "An act  for establishing the boundary or partition line between the colonies of New  York and Nova Caesarea, or New Jersey, and for confirming titles and  possession,"  and John Stevens and Walter Rutherford, commissioners on the part  of the then colony of New Jersey, duly appointed in pursuance of an act of the  assembly of the colony of New Jersey, passed on the twenty-third day of  September, seventeen hundred and seventy-two, entitled  "An act for  establishing the boundary or partition line between the colonies of New York  and Nova Caesarea, or New Jersey, and for confirming titles and possession,"  which said line has since been acknowledged and recognized by the two states as  the limit of their respective territory and jurisdiction, shall,  notwithstanding its want of conformity to the verbal description thereof, as  recited by said commissioners, continue to be the boundary or partition line  between the said two states;  provided, that wherever upon said line the  location of one or more of the monuments erected by said commissioners in  seventeen hundred and seventy-four, has been lost, and cannot otherwise be  definitely fixed and determined, then in that case, and in every case where it  is required to establish intervening points on said line, a straight line drawn between the nearest adjacent monuments, whose localities are ascertained, shall  be understood to be, and shall be, the true boundary line.

     L.1884, c. 83, Agreement, p. 119 (C.S. p. 5364, s. 19).