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Laws, 1764, Allinson p. 265, chap. 397.

An Act for subjecting the estates of the general proprietors of the Eastern Division of this colony to the indemnification of this Province from any expense in running the line between New Jersey and New York.

Whereas by an act of the General Assembly of the Province of New Jersey passed in the 4th year of His present Majesty King George Third, entitled An Act for submitting the property of lands which are held or claimed by any of His Majesty's subjects, as lying within this colony and are affected by the controversy about the Boundary or Partition line between this colony and the colony of New York, to such a method of decision as His Most Gracious Majesty shall think proper by His Royal Commission or otherwise to appoint, wherein among other things it is enacted that John Stevens, James Parker, Henry Cuyler Junior, William Donaldson and Walter Rutherford, Esquires, or the majority of them, or the majority of the survivors of them are nominated and appointed agents to manage the said controversy on the part and behalf of this colony and also that the.said agents or the majority of them, or the major part of the survivors of them are thereby authorized to pay, lay out and expend from time to time from and out of the public moneys in the treasury of this colony all such sums of money as shall from time to time be necessary to defray as well the one-half of the said joint expense as the particular expenses thereof which sums of money shall from time to time upon application of the said agents or the major part of them, as occasion shall require, be drawn out of said treasury by the warrant or warrants of His Excellency the tGovernor, or Commander-in-Chief of the colony for the time being; but the Legislature having received assurances from the general proprietors of the Eastern Division, that the Province should be indemnified of all demands for the purposes aforesaid:

Sec. 1. Be it therefore enacted, by the Governor, Council and General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same that all and singular, the lands, tenements, hereditaments and other estates of the said John Stevens, James Parker, Henry Cuyler Junior, William Donaldson, and Walter Rutherford Esquires, and all others who are general proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey and of each and every of them, jointly and severally, and be subjected and made liable to indemnify and save harmless this colony of New Jersey of and from any money being demanded or drawn out of the treasury of this Province by virtue of any power granted in the before recited Act of General Assembly.

Passed February 23d, 1764.

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