New Jersey Statutes Title 52. State Government, Departments and Officers 52 § 28-9

Article VIII. This agreement shall become binding on the two states when confirmed by the legislatures thereof, respectively, and when approved by the congress of the United States. Done in four parts (two of which are retained by the commissioners of New York, to be delivered to the governor of that state, and the other two of which are retained by the commissioners of New Jersey, to be delivered to the governor of that state) at the city of New York, this sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and of the independence of the United States the fifty-eighth.