New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 15 § 5-8(20)

20. That in all cases where banks or dams are maintained by a tax, and divided from the adjoining meadows by a lawful fence, ditch or drain, made and repaired, at the expense of the company, if any owner or occupier shall put or keep on, or suffer to be put or kept on the part of the bank or dam assigned as his or her part to occupy, any horses, horned cattle, or swine, by his or her consent or order, contrary to the directions of the manager or managers, and thereby damage the bank, dam or works, such owner or occupier, so offending, shall make good all damages occasioned thereby, to be valued by two freeholders of the township, to be chosen, one by the manager or managers, and the other by the offender; and if the person so offending shall neglect or refuse to join in the choice, then, and in such case, the manager or managers shall choose both; and if the two so chosen cannot agree, they shall choose a third, any two of whom shall value the damage; which damage shall be recovered by the managers or manager from the person who had offended as aforesaid, and applied towards repairing the bank or other works, under the direction of the managers; provided always, that nothing herein contained, except the twentieth section of this act, shall extend to interfere with any private law heretofore passed, or any agreement heretofore made for banking and draining of meadows, without the consent of all persons concerned therein.