Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State
of New Jersey, That the part of the Township of Westfield, in the
County of Union, described as follows: Beginning at the intersection
of the east and west branches of Green Brook, in the line between
Somerset and Union Counties, thence up the west branch of said brook
as it runs in the line of said counties, to a turn or bend of said
branch, on the northwest side of the valley road leading to Springfield,
said turn or bend of said branch being forty links northwest from
the northwest end of formerly the center of an arch of a stone bridge
(now a flat wooden bridge); thence along the northwest side of said
valley road, as the needle pointed in the year eighteen hundred and
forty-one, north, forty-two degrees and thirty minutes east, six chains
and eighty links, to the northern angle of said road and the road
leading from Scotch Plains to New Providence; thence along the northwest
side of said valley road north, fifty-six degrees east, fourteen chains
and fifty links to the line of the Township of Fanwood, in the middle
of the east branch of Green Brook, eighty links distant, on a course
bearing north, seventy-five degrees east, from the center of a spring
in the front of formerly Humphrey M. Drake's house, now Warren Ackerman's;
thence down the middle of said branch as it runs, to the place of
beginning, being the same tract of land that was annexed to the said
Township of Westfield by an act entitled ''An act to alter a part
of the boundary line between the Townships of Westfield and New Providence,
in the County of Essex, approved March tenth, one thousand eight hundred
and forty-one," be and the same is hereby set off from the said Township
of Westfield, in the County of Union, and annexed to and made part
of the Township of Fanwood, in said county.
And be it enacted, That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent
with this act be and the same are hereby repealed, and this act shall
take effect immediately.
Approved February 25, 1889.