New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 15 § 5-8(40)

1. That if the owners of more than one-half the number of taxed acres of any meadow now or hereafter to be inclosed by a bank, dam, sluices and other waterworks, laid out by commissioners appointed and acting under the first section of the law to which this is a supplement, shall deem the location thereof unsafe or hard to be maintained, by reason of wash, breach, or other cause, they may apply to the court of common pleas, in the manner directed in the said first section of the law above recited, and the said court shall appoint double the number of commissioners first appointed for the laying out of said bank, dams, sluices and other waterworks, a majority of whom, after hearing the parties and viewing the premises, may, and they are hereby empowered to make such alterations in the location of said bank, dam, sluices and other works, as they shall think necessary; and it shall be their duty to make an actual survey, describing the alteration so made, and setting the same forth in a certificate, which certificate shall be recorded in a book by the clerk of the court from which they received their appointment.