New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 44 § 4-99(1)

1. In any county of this state wherein the provisions of the act to which this act is a supplement have been adopted by a referendum of the legal voters, and wherein children are now being maintained at public charge under the care of a duly incorporated charitable society, the county welfare board of such county, if it deems it for the best interests of any child or children under the age of eighteen years, which said child or children may have been committed to the welfare-house of said county under the provisions of section thirty-nine of the act to which this act is a supplement, may transfer any such child or children to the care and control of said duly incorporated charitable society in such county for such time as may be for the best interests of said child or children or until such child or children arrives at the age of eighteen years.