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State for War.
Description of Secretary of State in contract, etc., and execution of contract, etc.
[Originally No. 14 of 1860. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.]
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No. 2 of 1860. WAR DEPARTMENT (VESTING OF PROPERTY).
estates, and property vested in or agreed to be purchased by the said Principal Officers, or in anywise relating to the public service, shall be deemed and taken to have been made or entered into with such Principal Secretary of State as last aforesaid, and shall be executed and enforced by him in like manner as if he had originally been party thereto instead of the said Principal Officers; and all proceedings whatsoever shall and may be commenced, continued, taken, and done in the name of the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State.
5. In every contract, conveyance, surrender, lease, or other assurance of any lands, hereditaments, estates, or property with, unto, or by the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the time being, and in every other deed or instrument relating to any lands, hereditaments, estates, or property, or in anywise to the public service, to which the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the time being shall be or shall be intended to be a party, it shall be sufficient to call or describe him by the style or title of "His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War Department," without naming him; and every such contract, conveyance, surrender, lease, assurance, deed, or instrument may be executed by such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State, or by any other of the Principal Secretaries of State for the time being, by signing his name thereto, and, if the instrument so executed is in the form of a deed, by setting or affixing a seal thereto and delivering the same as his deed; and whenever any contract, conveyance, surrender, lease, assurance, deed, or instrument is executed by any other Principal Secretary of State than the Principal Secretary of State for the War Department, the Principal Secretary of State so executing the same shall, for that time, and on that occasion, and for the purposes thereof, be deemed to be the Principal Secretary of State for the War Department.
No. 3 of 1860.
An Ordinance to make provision for the remission of penalties.
[17th August, 1860.] WHEREAS penalties which under penal statutes or Ordinances are made payable to parties other than the Crown cannot be remitted by the Governor where no express provision has been made by the
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.