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ORDNANCE BOARD TRANSFER ACT 1855 - SECT 5

Style and title of 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 "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 then 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.

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