New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 15 § 5-8(32)

1. That the commissioners appointed by the court, agreeably to the first section of said act, shall be authorized and required, after they shall have laid out the said banks, dams, sluices, and other waterworks, to cause a plot, map, or duplicate to be made, showing the quantity and number of acres held by each person, respectively, as nearly as practicable from former surveys, duplicates, or other sources of information; that the said plot, map, or duplicate, shall be signed by a majority of the said commissioners, and placed in the hands of the managers that may be first chosen, there to remain until the water shall have been stopped off said meadow; said plot, map, or duplicate to be received as sufficient evidence of the quantity of acres belonging to each owner or possessor, and all assessments and votes, prior to the assessment and valuation made under the fourth and fifth sections of the act to which this is a supplement, shall be governed thereby; provided always, that nothing in this act shall be construed so as to prevent the stopping of any creek or river, which has been heretofore stopped by the act to which this is a supplement, or any other act of the legislature.