52:28-43 - Execution of agreement and submission to congress; suit discontinued - New Jersey Statutes

52:28-43.  Execution of agreement and submission to congress;  suit discontinued
    Article IX.  This agreement shall be executed by the said commissioners when  authorized to do so by the legislature of the said states.  It shall thereupon  be submitted to congress for its consent and approval.  Upon the ratification  thereof by congress it shall be and become binding in perpetuity upon both of  said states;  and thereupon the suit now pending in the supreme court of the  United States, in which the state of New Jersey is complainant and the state of  Delaware is defendant, shall be discontinued, without costs to either party and  without prejudice.  Pending the ratification hereof by congress said suit shall  remain in statu quo.

    Done in two parts (one of which is retained by the commissioners of Delaware, to be delivered to the governor of that state, and the other one of which is retained by the commissioners of New Jersey, to be delivered to the governor of that state) this         day of        , in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and five.

     L.1905, c. 42, Art. IX, p. 72 (C.S. p. 5377, s. 57).