The phrase "and so ordered the" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in legal or formal contexts to indicate that a decision or directive has been made by an authority.
Example: "The judge reviewed the evidence and so ordered the immediate release of the defendant."
Alternatives: "and thus commanded the" or "and therefore directed the".
It may come as some comfort to indie labels that a German court agreed with Gema that YouTube's notices on each blocked video, which blamed Gema for the blocking, illegally made the collecting society out as a villain, and so ordered the streaming site to make it clear that it is due to a disagreement between both parties.
Von Spee realized his armored cruisers could not escape the much faster battlecruisers, and so ordered the three light cruisers to attempt to break away while he turned about to engage the British with Gneisenau and Scharnhorst.
The German naval command was aware that British submarines were operating in the Baltic Sea, and so ordered Behring to attack the Russian port at Libau to prevent it from being used as a British submarine base.
Duodo had been mortally wounded in the action, and so ordered his second in command to light the fuse.
The military's role is in defending computer networks and, if so ordered by the president, carrying out offensive attacks.
And so Jackson ordered the federals to be paroled.
Reuter believed that the British intended to seize the German ships on 21 June 1919, and so he ordered the ships to be sunk at the next opportunity.
An interest in literature surfaces briefly when he realises that the love of his life has a job making special deliveries for Amazon, and so orders a book – the title of which is irrelevant and unmentioned.
Distant from Jackson's other forces and ill-supplied, Loring and other officers petitioned the War Department to be recalled, and Benjamin, after consulting Davis, so ordered, using the pretext of rumored Union troop movements in the area.
Since the agency spies on the computer systems of foreign governments and terrorist groups, General Alexander would, in effect, be in charge of both finding and, if so ordered, neutralizing cyberattacks in the making.
The admitting doctor, after interviewing and examining the patient (within one or two hours after admission), completed a form with information on the history of the patient, their physical examination results, an analysis of the EKG (if so ordered) and if the patient needed checking of the vital signs at least every two hours.
