...Phillipsburg was superseded by the provisions of an act of the Legislature of the state of New Jersey entitled 'An act to regulate the ascertainment and...property condemned or taken for public use." Revision 1900, approved March 20, 1900." The seventeenth section of the act last referred to (PL 1900, p. 86)...

...otherwise acquire, or to condemn in the name of the said city, according to an act of the legislature entitled "An act to regulate the ascertainment and...property condemned, or taken for public use" (revision), approved March 20, 1900, and the amendments thereof and supplements thereto, any lands on the water...