Documents Relating to the Colonial, Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary History of the State of New Jersey Volume N . 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...Money 'for that purpose." "An Act to enable the Owners and Possessors of "the Meadows lying on the Southerly Branch of New"ton Creek commonly called the Fork Creek in the "County of Gloucester to repair and maintain a Bank, "Dam and Water Works heretofore erected and made "across the said Southerly Branch of Newton Creek, "and to keep the Water Course of the said Creek open "and clear." "An Act to enable the proprietors and possessors of "the Meadows and Swamps lying on Pinch Ditch, "Black Brook, and part of Whiponong River in the ' County of Morris, to clear deepen and dig ditches for "the more effectual draining the said Meadows and "Swamps and for other purposes therein mentioned." "An Act for the more Effectual Maintaining and "keeping above the Flow of the Tide, that part of the "Road or Causeway between the Toll Bridge over "Newton Creek and the Fast Land of Kesiah Tonkin." "An Act to enable sundry of the Owners and Pos'sessors of Meadows and Tide Marsh lying on Eng"lish's Creek in the County of Burlington to erect "and maintain a Bank, Dam and other Water Works "across the said Creek in Order to prevent the Tide "from Overflowing the same." "A Supplementary Act to the Act intitled an Act to "enable the Owners of the Meadows and Marshes be"longing to the town of Salem, to keep out the Tide "from Overflowing the same." "An Act for the Relief of Thomas Tindal and James "Clark the Younger, and for other purposes therein "mentioned." "An Act for the Relief of John Budd of Salem." And I am humbly of Opinion, that the said Acts are proper in Point of Law. I have also per...