AN ORDINANCE FOR Passing Custodies OF Idiots and Lunaticks.

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Monday 20th March, 1653.

ORdered by His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and the Coun­cil, that this Ordinance bee forthwith Printed and Published.

Hen. Scobel, Clerk of the Council.

LONDON, Printed, by William du-Gard, and Henry Hills, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector. 1653.

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AN ORDINANCE FOR Passing Custodies OF Idiots and Lunaticks.

WHereas by an Act of the late Parlament on the behalf of Idiots and Lunaticks, it was, among other things, enacted, That the Bils for passing of the Custodies of the said Idiots and Lunaticks, should bee signed by the Council of State before the Com­missioners [Page 146] of the Great Seal of England should pass the same under the said Seal; And where­as that Council is since dissolved, Bee it Or­demed by his Highness the Lord PROTECTOR, by and with the advice and consent of his Coun­cil, That the Chancellor, Keeper, or Commis­sioners of the Great Seal for the time being, do not pass the said Custodies under the Great Seal, before the same bee signed by His High­ness the Lord PROTECTOR, and that the same so signed by His Highness, shall bee a sufficient warrant for passing the same under the said Great Seal, Any Law, Statute, Act, Ordi­nance or Custom to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

Monday 20th March, 1653.

Ordered by his Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and the COUNCIL, that this Ordinance bee forthwith printed and published.

Hen. Scobell, Clerk of the Council.

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