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Property, &c. vested in the secretary of the commissioners by virtue of his office shall vest in his successor.
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49. In all cases in which, by virtue of this Act, any title, right, or interest in or to any real or personal estate, effects, rates, rents, tolls, receipts, profits, or other property shall be vested in, conveyed, assigned, transferred, made payable, or secured to the secretary of the commissioners for the time being for the execution of this Act, as such secretary in respect of his office, all such real and personal estate, effects, rates, rents, tolls, receipts, profits, or other property whatsoever, upon the death, removal, or resignation of any such secretary from time to time, and as often as the same shall happen and the appointment of a successor shall take place, shall (subject to the same trusts, if any, as the same were before respectively subject to) vest in such succeeding secretary by force of this Act, and without any act or deed whatever to be done by such secretary so dying, resigning, or removed, or the heirs, executors, or administrators of such secretary, or by any person or persons claiming under him, them, or any of them, and notwithstanding any such interest may have been expressed to have been vested in, conveyed, assigned, transferred, made payable to, or secured to such secretary, his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, or any of them, and shall and may be proceeded upon, in the name of any succeeding secretary, by any action or suit in law or equity, or in any other manner, as the same might have been proceeded upon by or in the name or names of such secretary so dying, resigning, or removed, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns.
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