State of New Jersey
Chapter CXLVII
An Act to incorporate the City of Bayonne, in the County
of
Hudson, and State of New Jersey
Title 1.
BOUNDARIES, NAME, CORPORATE TITLE
- BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of
New Jersey. That all that part of the county of Hudson, lying south
of the Morris Canal, included within the following boundaries, that
is to say, commencing at a point in Newark Bay, where a line, if drawn
from a point where the Morris Canal nears said bay into the same at
right angles thereto, would intersect the westerly boundary of the township
of Greenville; thence southeasterly along said line to the Morris Canal;
thence along the southerly line of the Morris Canal to New York Bay;
thence into said bay at right angles thereto, to the boundary line between
the states of New Jersey and New York; thence along said boundary line
through New York Bay and the Kill Von Kull into Newark Bay to the place
of beginning, at present known as the township of Bayonne, shall be
one municipal corporation, to be known and called the city of Bayonne,
and the citizens of the state from time to time, inhabitants within
said boundaries, shall be and constitute said corporation; they shall
have all the powers necessary for carrying out the objects and purposes
of this act, and may have a common seal, alterable at pleasure, and
by the title of "The Mayor and City Council of the City of Bayonne,"
may sue and be sued in the courts of this state.
- And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.
Approved March 10, 1869
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