New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 40 § 18-4(8.1)

1. That all and singular the lands and upper parts of said Morris county, northwest of Muskonetkong river, beginning at the mouth of said river, where it empties itself into Delaware river, and running up said Muskonetkong river, to the head of the great pond; from thence northeast to the line, that divides the province of New York and said New Jersey; thence along the said line to Delaware river aforesaid; thence down the same to the mouth of Muskonetkong, the place of beginning: all which said lands, contained within the above boundaries, be erected into a county, and they are hereby erected into a county, named and from henceforth to be called the county of Sussex: and the said Muskonetkong river, so far as the county of Hunterdon bounds on it, shall be the boundary line between that county and said county of Sussex; and the said Muskonetkong river, and a northeast line from the head of said pond, shall be the boundary line between Morris county and the said county of Sussex.