N.J. Stat. § 4:5-30: Priority of payment to certain owners

In compensating the owners of cattle condemned and slaughtered under this article, the department or such board, bureau or other agency as may be charged with such duty, shall give priority to owners with whom agreements for compensation were made before the date on which an appropriation for such purpose became available.

An appropriation made for such purpose after April fourteenth, one thousand nine hundred and thirty, shall be deemed to be made in accordance with this section.