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456 ORDINANCE No. 6 OF 1860.


Ordnance Estates.


public service or concerning any lands , hereditaments , estates , and property vested in
to be enforced
by such Se or agreed to be purchased by the said Principal Officers, or in anywise
cretary of
State. relating to the public service, shall be deemed and taken to have been
inade 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 hereafter
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.

Such Secre 4. In every contract, conveyance , surrender, lease, or other assurance
tary of State
to be describ of any lands, hereditaments , estates or property, with, unto, or by the
ed in convey
ances, &c., last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the time being, and in
as "Her
Majesty's every other deed or instrument relating to any lands, hereditaments ,
Principal
Secretary of estates, or property, or in anywise to the public service, to which the
State for the
War Depart last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State for the time being shall be or
ment."
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 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 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 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.