Title: An act for further continuing an act, made in the seventeenth year of the reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An act to impower His Majesty to secure and detain persons charged with, or suspected of, the crime of high treason, committed in any of His Majesty's colonies or plantations in America, or on the high seas, or the crime of piracy
Subjects: Treason, Colonies, Early works to 1800, Law and legislation, Privateering, History
Places: Great Britain, United States, America
Time periods: Revolution, 1775-1783, 18th century