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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH MAY, 1860.
whatsoever, before and at the Time of the Revocation by Her Majesty herein-before mentioned were vested in the Principal Officers of the Ordnance, on behalf of Her Ma- jesty, or which have been at any Time before the passing of this Ordinance held, used, or occupied, or purchased, vested, or taken, by or in the Name of or by any Person or Per- sons in trust for Her Majesty, for the Use and Service of the said Department or for the Defence and Security of the Realm, and which have not been sold, aliened, or parted with, shall from henceforth be and the same are hereby declared to be transferred to and vested in the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being, on behalf of Her said Majesty; and when and so often as the said last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State, and any succeeding Principal Secretary of State to whom Her Majesty shall have intrusted the Seals of the War Department, shall cease to hold such Office, the said several Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property, and all Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property which hereafter shall be purchased or otherwise acquired by any such last-men- tioned Principal Secretary of State for the time being, on behalf of Her said Majesty, shall by virtue of this Ordinance be absolutely divested out of such Secretary of State so ceasing to hold such Office as aforesaid, and shall by virtue of this Ordinance be transferred to and vested in his Successor in the said Office, immediately upon his receiving the Seals of the said Department, absolutely; and the said Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, and Property hereby vested and hereafter to be vested in the said last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State and his Successor shall, as to such of them as were or shall have been purchased, or are or shall be held for an Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple, be so vested in such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State and his Successors in the same Manner as if the Fee Simple thereof had been originally conveyed to such Principal Se- cretary of State as a Corporation Sole and his Successors; and as to all Lands, Heredita- ments, and Property purchased or held for any less Estate than an Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple, as if the same Lands, Hereditaments, and Property had been originally conveyed, surrendered, demised, or otherwise assured to such Principal Secretary of State as a Corporation Sole, and his Successors, for all the existing Estates or Interests therein respectively, and so from Time to Time.
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III. All Contracts, Covenants, and Agreements heretofore made or entered into by Contracts, &c., mada any Person or Persons whomsoever with the said Principal Officers of the Ordnance, or cers relating to the any Person or Persons on their behalf, as to or concerning any Lands, Hereditaments, Public Service to he Estates, and Property vested in or agreed to be purchased by the said Principal Officers, er be such Se- or in any-wise 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 of the Ordnance; and all Proceedings whatsoever which have been or might or may have been commenced, taken, or done in the Names of the said Principal Officers, on behalf of Her Majesty, shall and may here- after be commenced, continued, taken, and done in the Name of such Principal Secretary of State as aforesaid, in like Manner (in the Case of Proceedings already commenced. taken, or done,) as if he had originally been Party thereto, instead of the said Principal Officers of the Ordnance.
Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of
IV. In every Contract, Conveyance, Surrender, Lease, or other Assurance of any Such Secretary of Lands, Hereditaments, Estates or Property, with, unto, or by the last-mentioned Princi-State to be described pal Secretary of State for the Time being, and in every other Deed or Instrument rela-as Conveyances, &c.. ting to any Lands, Hereditaments, Estates, or Property, or in anywise to the Public state for the War De- Service, to which the last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the Time being partment.” 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 "Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the War De- partment," without naming him; and every such Contract, Conveyance, Surrender. Lease, Assurance, Deed, or Instrument may be executed by such last-mentioned Prin- cipal Secretary of State, or by any other of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the Time being, by signing his Name thereto, and if the Instrument so executed be 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 shall be executed by any other Principal Secretary of State than the Prin- ipal 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.
HERCULES G. R. ROBINSON.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 30th Day of April, 1860.
L. D'ALMADA E Castro, Clerk of Councils.
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