And be it enacted, &c. That if any man hold land by a river or creek side, yet so as there lies marsh betwixt the firme land and the river, such adjacent marsh shall not be taken up, or being allready taken up by any other shall not be held, but such adjacent marsh shall be deemed and adjudged absolutely to belong to the land to which it is adjacent, and be bounded by the same courses drawn from the firm land into such river or creek as the firme land is bounded by, except in Somersett county, and upon Delaware and the ocean.

    And be it enacted, &c. That if any man hold land which is bounded or exprest to be bounded by a line drawn from a certein tree or other individuable point of intersections, a certein course to a certein markt tree in the woods, and the said tree or trees do not correspond to the said certein course or courses, but that the courses and trees differ very much as it is too common, and that the courses prescribed give the quantity of land due to the taker up, in such cases wherein it is not otherwise before in this act provided; in ascerteining the bounds of lands by the water side, the lines shall be the bounds of such lands, and the trees shall be deserted, and one line shall be drawn from the end of another, because the errors of such surveyors was in the misplacing of trees: Yet so if any second taker up hath begun att any the aforesaid deserted trees and run lines parallel to the first taken up lands, and that by this regulation some part of the land of the second taker up will now fall within the lines of the first taker up, in such case the                     2