AI-assisted research summary: The Ordinance vests the listed lands in the Emperor of the French and his heirs forever as absolute owners in fee simple.
ST HELENA REVISED EDITION OF THE LAWS, 2017 LAND OWNERSHIP & USE FRENCH GOVERNMENT LANDS (VESTING) ORDINANCE, 18581 Ordinance 2 of 18582 In force 18 March 1858 Amended by Ordinance 2 of 1935 No subsidiary legislation to 1 November 2017 FRENCH GOVERNMENT LANDS (VESTING) ORDINANCE, 1858 AN ORDINANCE to vest in the French Government certain lands in St Helena forming the site of the tomb of Napoleon I and of the tenement of Longwood. Short title 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the French Government Lands (Vesting) Ordinance, 1858. Certain lands vested in Emperor of the French 2. All the lands respectively being the same with those more particularly described in the Schedule to this Ordinance be and the same are hereby vested in His Majesty the now Emperor of the French and his heirs for ever, as absolute owners thereof in fee simple, freed and discharged of and from all right, title, or demand of, by, or on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Her heirs or successors, or of, by or on behalf of any other person or persons whomsoever. SCHEDULE 1. Napoleon’s Vale with the messuage or tenement thereon, and the site of the tomb of the late Emperor Napoleon the First situated in the East Division of the Island of St Helena, abutting and bounding north on the lands formerly belonging to DAVID KAY, senior; south, on the lands formerly belonging to JOHN ROBINSON, senior; west 1 Under section 10 of the Revised Edition of the Laws Ordinance, 1999 this text is authoritative and is the sole authentic edition in respect of the law contained in it as at 1 November 2017. 2 Note: The text is as originally enacted and amended and has not been modernised for the 2017 Law Revision. 2 on the lands formerly belonging to THOMAS BROOK; and east partly on the waste lands of the Crown, and partly on the lands of STEPHEN FRAZER PRITCHARD; containing in the whole 33 acres and 14 poles. 2. All that piece or parcel of land with the messuage or tenement thereon, situate at Longwood in the Island of St Helena and called or known by the name of Longwood Old House, formerly the residence of the late Emperor Napoleon the First, together with all buildings, ways, water-courses, rights, privileges and appurtenances whatsoever to the same belonging, and a space of ground surrounding the same, demarcated by 6 boundary pillars and containing in the whole an area of 2 acres, 3 roods and 34 poles. ___________________