State of New Jersey

An Act to create a new township in the county of
Hudson, to be called the "Township of Weehawken"

Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey That all that part of the city of Hoboken, and the township of North Bergen, in the County of Hudson, included within the following bounderies, that is to say, commencing on the westerly side of the road leading from Bull's Ferry to Hoboken, formerly known as the Weehawken Turnpike, at a point which divides the lands, formerly of Mitchel Saunier and John Van Horne, as the said lands are laid down on a map of L. F. Douglass bearing date eighteen hundred and forty one, and from said place of beginning running in a southeasterly direction, down the bank of Hudson river, following the same dividing line, and a continuation thereof if protracted to the middle of Hudson river; from thence, returning to the place of beginning; and from said place of beginning running southerly, and along the westerly side of said road, to the northerly side of the Bergen turnpike road, opposite the lands of John Ehlers, and where said roads intersect; thence northwesterly, and along the northerly side of the said turnpike road, until you reach a point opposite to the intersection of the Palisade Avenue, with the Bergen turnpike road aforesaid; thence crossing the said Bergen turnpike, and following along the easterly line of said avenue in a southeasterly direction to lands of Charles Loss, deceased, where the same intersect the said easterly side of Palisade Avenue; from thence along the westerly and northerly boundary of said property, as said lands are actually bounded, to where the boundary line of said Loss property intersects the said Bergen turnpike road, and across said road, and in a continuation of said last mentioned line to a point one hundred feet easterly from the easterly line of said road; thence southerly and parallel with the said turnpike, and one hundred feet distant therefrom, to a point nine hundred and fifty feet northerly from the northerly line of Eighth street, in Hoboken, as said street is laid down on Loss' map of Hoboken, filed in the Bergen County Clerk's office; thence easterly and parallel with Eighth street to a point where Tenth Street intersects with the westerly line of Hudson Street, as the same is shown on a map of a part of Hoboken, filed in the Clerk's office of the County of Hudson December thirty-first eighteen hundred and fifty eight; from thence southerly along the easterly line of Hudson street, as the same is shown on the map last aforesaid; to the northeast corner of Hudson and Seventh street; thence easterly along the northerly line of Seventh street to the northeasterly corner of River and Seventh street; thence southerly along the easterly side of River street to the northerly side of Sixth street, and then east along the north line of Sixth street to the River; and thence in a continuation of said last mentioned line, if protracted to the centre of the river; thence up the river, and along the middle thereof to a point which will reach the line first protracted as aforesaid, to the middle of Hudson river, shall be and the same is hereby made a new township, to be called by the name of the township of Weehawken.
And be it enacted That the inhabitants of the said township of Weehawken are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate in law, by the name of "The Inhabitants of the township of Weehawken" in the county of Hudson and state of New Jersey, and are vested with and entitled to all the rights, powers, privileges, authority, and advantages and subject to the same government and liabilities as are prescribed in the act entitled "An Act incorporating the inhabitants of township, designating their powers, and regulating their meetings," approved April fourteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, except that they shall elect but one chosen freeholder, and shall be entitled to a full proportionate estate, share, and interest, in any public funds and property with other townships in the County of Hudson, in proportion to the taxable property, and as taxed by the assessors within their repsective limits at the last assessment, and subject to like obligations and responsibilities, with other townships in the said County, in the same manner as if herein particularly ennumerated and set forth.
And be it enacted That the inhabitants of the said township of Weehawken shall hold their first annual town meeting at the House of Joshua Benson, on the second Wednesday of April, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, and afterwards at such place in the said township of Weehawken as shall be determined by the elections of said township, in the manner prescribed by law.
And be it enacted That all paupers who have gained a settlement within the territorial limits included in the said township of Weehawken, shall, after the passage of this act, be chargeable to the township of Weehawken.
And be it enacted That justices of the peace, commissioners for taking the acknowledgment and proof of deeds, and other officers residing within the limits of the township of Weehawken, shall hold their offices until the same shall expire by their own limitation.
And be it enacted That such portion of the lands and property in the first section of this act described, and therein included, as are separated and set off from the City of Hoboken shall be subject to a proportionate share of any debt or obligation incured by the City of Hoboken; and also such portion of the lands and property in the first section of this Act described and included therein, as are set off from the township of North Bergen, in the County of Hudson, shall be subject to a proportionate share of any debt or obligation incurred by the inhabitants of the township of North Bergen, in the County of Hudson, and the inhabitants of the township of Weehawken in the County of Hudson shall be made liable to the debts and obligations aforesaid, to be enforced at law or in equity, upon the lands and property aforesaid, in the proportions and in the principles aforesaid.
And be it enacted That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the creation of the said township of Weehawken, and the boundary and jurisdiction thereof, as in this Act contained, are to that extent modified and repealed.
And be it enacted That the said township of Weehawken shall be included in the third Assembly district of the County of Hudson.
And be it enacted That this Act shall take effect immediately.
February 18, 1859
This Bill having been three times read in the Senate, Resolved that the same do pass
By order of the Senate
[Signed (undecipherable)]
President of the Senate
March 10, 1859
This Bill having been three times read in the House of Assembly, Resolved that the same do pass
By order of the House of Assembly
[Signed Edwin Salter]
Speaker of the House of Assembly
Approved 15 March 1859
[Signed W. A. Sewell]
Governor of the State of New Jersey