America - High Treason and Piracy - original printed Act of Parliament of George III dated 1781 '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. 2pp folio with integral title page. This was a continuation of an original Act passed in 1777. At this time the American War of Independence was still continuing