AN ORDINANCE FOR Further Suspending the proceed of the Judges named in an Act, Entitled, An ACT for the Relief OF Creditors and poor Prisoners.   blazon of the Commonwealth 

Tuesday 18th April, 1654.  
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. 1654.   

 blazon of the Commonwealth  
AN ORDINANCE For further Suspending the proceed of the Judges named in an Act, Entitled, An Act for the Relief of Creditors and poor Prisoners.  
WHereas in regard of many doubts arising upon an Act of the late Parliament, for the Relief of Creditors and poor Prisoners, and several inconveniencies and mischiefs like to grow from thence, not only to the Creditors & Prisoners themselves, but to divers other persons, without some explanation and further direction to be given to the several and respective judges authorized in and by the said Act; It is by an Ordinance of the 31 of March last Ordained, that the said several and respective judges should not proceed to sale or disposition, nor otherwise intermeddle in the execution of the said Act, or of any the powers and authorities given by the same, until the twentieth day of April instant; and whereas the way for prevention of those evils, and the better accomplishing the ends intended by the said Act, is now under consideration, which will necessarily require some longer time to perfect the same: Be it Ordained by His Highness the Lord Protector, by and with the consent of his Council, That the said several and respective judges mentioned in the said Act, or any of them, shall not proceed to the sale or disposition of any the estates real or personal, of any of the said prisoners, or of any other person or persons whatsoever, mentioned or intended in or by the said Act, nor shall otherwise intermeddle in the execution of the said Act, or of any the powers or authorities given by the same, until the fifteenth day of May next coming; And be it further Ordained, that all acts and things to be done by the said several and respective judges, or any of them, by virtue, colour, or pretence of the said Act from henceforth and before the said fifteenth day of May aforesaid (saving only in such cases, and according to such limitations, as by the said Ordinance they had power to do, before the said twentieth day of April) shall be and are hereby declared to be utterly null and void.   

Tuesday the 18. of April, 1654.  
ORdered by His Highness the Lord PROTECTOR and the Council, That this Ordinance be forthwith Printed and Published.  
Hen. Scobel, Clerk of the Council.