N.J. Stat. § 43:10-71
All moneys remaining on June fifth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six, in the possession of any board of chosen freeholders of any county of the second class acquired by virtue of payments made pursuant to an act entitled "An act providing for the retirement and pensioning of court attendants in counties of the second class of this state," approved April sixteenth, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine, the same being chapter 104 of the laws of 1929, are hereby transferred to the credit of any pension fund created for the benefit of any sheriff's employees of counties of the second class and subject to pension benefits that may be acquired by any sheriff's employees of counties of the second class by virtue of the formation of any such pension fund.
N.J.S. § 43:10-71