AN ORDINANCE FOR Passing Custodies OF Idiots and Lunatics.   blazon of the Commonwealth 

Monday 20th March, 1653.  
ORdered by His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and the Council, that this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published.  
Hen. Scobel, Clerk of the Council.   
LONDON, Printed, by William dugard, and Henry Hills, Printers to His Highness the Lord Protector. 1653.   

 blazon of the Commonwealth  
AN ORDINANCE FOR Passing Custodies OF Idiots and Lunatics.  
WHereas by an Act of the late Parliament on the behalf of Idiots and Lunatics, it was, among other things, enacted, That the Bills for passing of the Custodies of the said Idiots and Lunatics, should be signed by the Council of State before the Commissioners of the Great Seal of England should pass the same under the said Seal; And whereas that Council is since dissolved, Be it ordained 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 be signed by His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR, and that the same so signed by His Highness, shall be 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 be forthwith printed and published.  
Hen. Scobell, Clerk of the Council.