The Delaware and Raritan canal and the feeder thereof and the appendages thereto and the works and improvements erected thereon, except the properties and facilities referred to in the proviso of section five of chapter one hundred thirty-nine of the laws of one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four and except the existing vehicle bridges over the same, shall henceforth be used as a source of industrial water supply and for recreational purposes, all as hereinafter more fully set forth.

L.1944, c. 172, p. 659, s. 1, eff. April 20, 1944.