STATE OF NEW JERSEY AN ACT for the preservation of Cranberries [c. 1846]
Be it enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the state of New Jersey, That is any person or persons shall take or gather from the vines at any time after the first day of June, and before the fifth day of October, cranberries on the common or unlocated lands within this state, or on any lands not their own property, or for which they pay no tax, such person or persons shall forfeit and pay, for every such offence, the sum of six dollars, and also the further sum of four dollars for each and every bushel so taken or gathered, within the times aforesaid, to be sued for and recovered by action of debt, in any court where the same may be cognizable, with costs of suit, to be applied, one half, if on the common or unlocated lands, to and for the use of the county where the offence shall have been committed; ....