N.J. Stat. § 46:27-1
The public office of the surveyor general of the eastern division of the province of New Jersey at Perth Amboy and the public office of the surveyor general of the western division of the province of New Jersey at Burlington, established in such cities by section ten of "An act for the running and ascertaining the line of partition of division between the eastern and western divisions of the province of New Jersey, and for the preventing disputes for the future concerning the same, and for securing to the general proprietors of the soil of each of the divisions, and persons claiming under them, their several and respective possessions, rights, and just claims," passed March twenty-seventh, one thousand seven hundred and nineteen (R.S.1847, s. 10, p. 27), shall continue to be established and conducted in such cities.
N.J.S. § 46:27-1