New Jersey Acts Saved from Repeal ACTS SAVED 54 § 6-2(1)

1. Whenever a title to land has vested under a deed given by the comptroller or collector of taxes of any municipality, which recites that the same was made, executed and delivered pursuant to an act of the legislature of the state of New Jersey, passed March thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-six, entitled “An act concerning the settlement and collection of arrearages of unpaid taxes, assessments and water rates or water rents, in cities of this state, and imposing and levying a tax, assessment and lien in lieu and instead of such arrearages, and to enforce the payment thereof, and to provide for the sale of lands subjected to future taxation and assessment,” and in said deed it is recited that the report of the commissioners appointed in pursuance to said act has been confirmed in manner therein provided, and a certified copy of said report filed as in said act required, and that the comptroller or collector of taxes, as the case might be, had given, or caused to be given, notice by advertisement, as in said act required, and that sale thereof had been made at public auction to the highest bidder of the lands described in said deed, and that the said comptroller or collector of taxes did execute and deliver to the said purchaser a certificate of sale, as provided in said act, and that such certificate of sale had been surrendered to said comptroller or collector of taxes and proof duly made by affidavit that notice of said sale in writing had been given in the manner prescribed by said act to every person who had an estate in or mortgage upon said lands and premises, whose estate or lien appears of record in the county wherein the lands described in said certificate were situate, and that no person had redeemed said lands and premises in the manner set forth in said act, nor in any manner, the same shall be conclusive and absolute, and the title so vesting by virtue of such deed is hereby validated and confirmed; provided, that such deed shall have been of record in any county clerk's or registrar's office for more than thirty years.