NJDEP - NJGS - Bulletin 66, Mapping Digest for New Jersey, 1965

STATE OF NEWJERSEYCHAPTER 116, LAWS OF 1935AN ACT to establish a system of land boundary descriptlons.BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assemblyof the State of New Jersey:1. The official survey base for New Jersey shall be a EaabliJhlnasystem of plane co-ordinates to be known as the New sur_ey oHiclal base.Jersey System of Plane Co-ordinates, said system beingdefined as a transverse Mercator projection of Clark'sspheroid of 1866, having a central meridian 74 ° 40'west from Greenwich on which meridian the scale isset at one part in 40,000 too small. All co-ordinates ofthe system are expressed in feet, the x co-ordinatebeing measured easterly along the grid and the y coordlnatebeing measured northerly along the grid, the originof the co-ordinates being on the meridian 74 ° 40'west from Greenwich at the intersection of the parallel38 ° 50' north latitude, such origin being given theco-ordinates x_2,000,000 feet; y=0 feet. The preciseposition of said system shall be as marked on the Ho*alndlcated.ground by triangulation or traverse stations establlshedin conformity with the standards adopted by the UnitedStates Coast and Geodetic Survey for first and secondorderwork, whose geodetic positions have been rigidlyadjusted on the North American datum of 1927, andwhose plane co-ordinates have been cmnputed on thesystem defined. Ute stations2. Any triangulation and/or traverse station estab- in #ro#ertylished as described in section one of this act may be sur_eys.used in establishing a connection between a propertysurvey and the above mentioned system of rectangularco-ordlnates.Use #rohiblted3. No survey of lands hereinafter made shall have untilendorsed thereon any legend or other statement indl- ettabhshd.catlng that it is based upon the New Jersey System ofPlane Co-ordlnates unless the co-ordlnates have beenestablished on that system as herein defined.lnter2bretation4. Nothing in this act contained shall be interpreted o.f act.as requfring any purchaser or mortgagee to rely on adescription based wholly upon the aforesaid system.5. This act is to take effect immediately.Approved March 25, 1935.9NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY