Compiled statutes of New Jersey Author:New Jersey Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: commission to be forfeited; and the state oyster commission shall in such case fix a sufficient time within which the oysters upon said forfeited ground shall be... more » removed by the person or persons owning said oysters, and shall cause notice of the time so fixed to be personally served upon said person or persons, and the said ground or grounds shall not be leased to any person until after the expiration of the time so fixed; provided, however, that whenever personal service is herein required, and the lessee or lessees shall at time of said service be absent from the state, then the said commission shall cause to be published a copy of said notice in at least one newspaper published in said county of Atlantic for a period of at least four weeks, and said publication shall be considered as personal service. (P. L. 1905, p. 148.) 242. Priority of right to lease; application; renewal.—Sec. 7. Any person or persons having, on the fifteenth day of September, anno dom- ini one thousand nine hundred and one, ground or grounds staked up in said tide waters of Atlantic county under any present law, usage or custom, shall be first entitled to apply for and receive a lease or leases for such ground or grounds; provided, application therefor, in writing, be filed at the office of the state oyster commission within sixty days after this act shall take effect, in default of which application the commission shall have power thereafter to lease such ground or grounds to any resident of this state, as above provided, and at the expiration of the term of any lease the same shall be renewed to the original lessee or lessees; provided, such lessee or lessees apply therefor within sixty days from the expiration of the term of such lease; and if application for any lease or renewal thereof for ground ...« less