to be so held in per- petual sucession.
What sufficient Ti- tle of Commissioners in conveyances.
era.
Power of Sale, &c.,
by the Governor for
by any person or persons by his or their order for the Naval Service of the said United VII. Provided always, that nothing in this Ordinance contained shall empower or be No property reserved Kingdom, or of any of the Departments of or belonging to the said Naval Servicnstrued, deemed or taken to empower the Lord High Admiral or the Commissioners Naval purposes to be and all erections and buildings which shall then or may be thereafter erected oresaid for the time being to sell or dispose of (otherwise than by way of surrender alienable except by built thereon, with the rights, members, easements, and appurtenances to the sam Her Majesty, Her Heirs, or Successors) any property reserved or granted by His way of surrender, respectively belonging, shall in like manner be and become and remain and con xcellency the Governor for naval or public purposes and held or accepted by the Lord tinue vested in the Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom, or the Commish Admiral or the Commissioners aforesaid for the time being under any Grant, sioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid for the time being and use, License or Appropriation made by the Governor on that behalf. his or their Successors in the said Office according to the respective nature and quality of the said messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and the several estates and interests of and in the same respectively in trust as aforesaid.
III. Upon the death, resignation, or removal of the present Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom or of any of them, or of any future such Commissioners, or of any Lord High Admiral of the said United Kingdom, all such messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments respectively shall become vested in and be held by the succeeding Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid, or the Lord High Admiral aforesaid, as the cast may be, and so in perpetual succession, according to the respective nature and quality of the said messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, and the several estates and interests of and in the same respectively in trust as aforesaid.
IV. In all Deeds, Conveyances, Leases, Contracts, and other Instruments touching any estate, property, matter, or thing relating to the Naval Service of the said United Kingdom or to any Department under the control of the Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral aforesaid, or whereto they or any of them shall be parties, it shall be sufficient to describe them generally by the style and title of "The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom "of Great Britain and Ireland," without expressing their names, and all such Deeds Conveyances, Leases, Contracts, and other Instruments, wherein the said Commissioners shall be so described, and the execution or signature thereof by any two of them, shal be as valid and effectual to all intents and purposes as if they or any of them had been expressly named therein and had executed or signed the same.
V. It shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners for executing the Office of given to Commission-Lord High Admiral aforesaid for the time being or any two or more of them, or the Lord High Admiral aforesaid, to sell, exchange, or in any manner dispose of, or let, or demise any of the messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments respectively which shall be vested in them under or by virtue of this Ordinance with their respective ap purtenances either by public auction or private contract, and in due form of Law to convey, surrender, assign, or make over or to grant or demise the same respectively, as the case may require, to any person or persons who shall be willing to purchase or take the same respectively, and also to do any other act, matter, or thing in relation to any such messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments which they or he shall deem benes ficial for the Public Service in relation thereto or for the better management thereof which might be done by any person or persons having a like interest in any such mes suages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments.
Power to sue and
such Lands given to
to costs of suit.
VI. It shall be lawful for the said Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord distrain in respect of High Admiral aforesaid for the time being, or the Lord High Admiral aforesaid for thei Comenissioners, and as time being, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to bring, prosecute, and maintain any action, suit, or other proceeding at law or in equity, for recovering posses sion of any messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, by this Ordinance vested in them or him as aforesaid, and to distrain or sue for any arrears of rent which shall have or shall become due for or in respect thereof, under any demise from the said Commis sioners or Lord High Admiral, or any person or persons on their or his behalf, or onl behalf of Her Majesty, and also to bring, prosecute, or maintain or to defend any other action or suit in respect of, or in relation to, the said messuages, lands, tenements, or hereditaments, or any trespass or encroachment committed thereon, or damage or injury done thereto; and that in every such action or suit the said Commissioners shall be called "The Commissioners for executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of Great "Britain and Ireland," without naming them; and no such action or suit shall abate by the death, resignation, or removal of such Commissioners, or any of them, or of such Lord High Admiral, any law, custom, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding: And the said Commissioners, or Lord High Admiral shall be entitled to recover costs for and on behalf of Her Majesty, where judgment shall be given for the Crown, and shall be liable to pay costs where judgment shall be given against the Crown, in any such action, suit, or other proceeding in like manner, and subject to the same rules and provisions as though such action, suit, or other proceeding had been had between subject and subject.
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