AN ORDINANCE for Continuation of one Act of Parliament, ENTITLED, An Act for Redemption of CAPTIVES.   blazon of the Commonwealth 

Saturday the 24. of December 1653.  
Ordered by His Highness the Lord Protector, and His Council, That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published.  
HEN. SCOBELL, Clerk of the Council.   
London, Printed by Hen. Hills, Printer to His Highness the Lord Protector, MDCLIII.   

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AN ORDINANCE for Continuation of one Act of Parliament, ENTITLED, An Act for Redemption of Captives.  
BE it Ordained by His Highness the Lord Protector, with the advice and consent of his Council, That one Act of Parliament, entitled, An Act for the Redemption of Captives, Printed by Order of Parliament of the six and twentieth day of March one thousand six hundred and fifty, for and concerning the payment of one fourth part of one per Centum, being one shilling for every twenty shillings paid for Custom and Subsidy according to the now Book of Rates, and all and every the Clauses, Forfeitures, Penalties, Prouisoes and Powers therein contained, in reference to the collecting, receiving, and due payment of the said Duty of one per Centum, in such sort as by the said Act is appointed, be continued from and after the twenty sixth day of December, one thousand six hundred fifty and three, until the third day of October, which shall be in the year one thousand six hundred fifty and four, and no longer; and that the Commissioners for the Customs for the time being, their Deputy and Deputies, do receive and collect the same, and shall pay out and employ all such sum and sums of money, as have been or shall be by them received and collected by virtue of the said beformentioned Act, or any subsequent Act for continuation thereof, or by virtue of this present Ordinance, in such sort as His Highness, with the advice of his Council, or such person or persons as shall be appointed thereunto, shall order and direct, whose Order from time to time shall be a sufficient discharge unto the said Commissioners for the Customs, for the same.   

Saturday the 24. of December 1653.  
Ordered by his Highness the Lord Protector, and his Council, That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published.  
Henry Scobell, Clerk of the Council.