Section 2, The Ordnance Lands Short title

From, and immediately after, the passing of this Ordinance Vesting ofthe said piece or portion of land hereinbefore described, together e stdnates of . . r ance m With all messuages, lands, tenements, estates, and other here- Secretary of ditaments which have been heretofore appropriated to, and State. occupied for the use or service of, the said Ordnance Department, and all erections and buildings which now are, or which shall or may be hereafter, erected and built thereon, together with all powers, privileges, members, easements, and appurtenances to the same respectively belonging, and which by the before-recited Ordinance of the twelfth day of November, Reservation of rights of pasture. Continuation of contracts. Disposal of estates by Secretary of State. Cap. 125] Ordnance Lands eighteen hundred and forty-two, were vested in the principal officers of Her Majesty's Ordnance, shall be, and the same are hereby declared to be, transferred to and vested in, and exercisable by, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the time being to whom Her Majesty shall think fit to entrust the seals of the War Department, and such last-mentioned Principal Secretary of State shall be entitled to the same exemption from personal responsibility as the said principal officers of Ordnance were entitled to: Provided always that nothing herein contained shall take away or prejudice the privilege of depasturing cattle in, over and upon that part of the said hereditaments, commonly called the Barrack Hill, as heretofore enjoyed by the inhabitants of Freetown aforesaid.