 | Edmund Burke - History - 1794 - 610 pages
...affembled, SHIWET H, ' THAT your petitioners have fcen i bill depending in this honourable houfe, to impower his majefty to fecure and detain perfons charged with,...fufpected of, the crime of high treafon committed in North America, or on the high feas, or the crime of piracy. • That, if the faid bill (hould pafs... | |
 | Great Britain - 1775 - 572 pages
...on which the annual election of directors of ilie faid company is to be made. Cap. q. To Ħrr.power his Majefty to fecure and detain perfons charged with, or fufpected of, the crime of high treafon, comniitted in any of his Majefty's colonies or plantations in Amtnftf,'or on the high feas, or the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1782 - 822 pages
...continuing an aft, made in tbe fevenfeentb year of the reign of his prefent Majefly, intituled, An aft to empower his Majefty to fecure and detain perfons charged with, or fufpecled of, the crime of high treafon, committed in any of his Majefty's colonies or plantations... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1777 - 388 pages
...drainage of the Middle and South Levebi and the feveral navigations through _ the fame ; and for impofing taxes on the lands within the faid levels, and laying...by the faid navigations, in order to raife further neceifary funds for that purpofe." Order of the day ; the fecond reading of the bill to empower his... | |
 | John Wilkes - Great Britain - 1777 - 192 pages
...Shakeip:are. Iirandifhes ihe fec.ceful-ye\\, f,,iHr oc:-sns of ink, and '' r ' Vbrts of February 1 7, i 777; The Bill to empower His Majefty to fecure' and detain Perfons charged with, or fufpe<3ed of, the Crime of High Treafon, committed' in North America, or on the High' Seas, or the... | |
 | Canada - 1782 - 434 pages
...of the thirteen revolted Colonies j and an act,, to enable his Majefty to fecure and detain peffons charged with, or fufpected of, 'the crime of high treafon committed in America, or on the high feas, or the crime of piracy. The firft of ftiefe bills occafioned very little debate. Lord Marchmont,... | |
 | John Wilkes - Great Britain - 1786 - 460 pages
...He does not quite agree with Sir William. H* tells us, " people aro "not VOTES of February 17, 1777* The Bill to empower His Majefty to fecure and detain perfons charged with, or fufpe&ed of, the Crime of High Treafon, committed in North America, or on the High Seasj or of the... | |
 | Charles M'Cormick - 1798 - 402 pages
...no afperity of war wholly extinguifhes in the minds of a civilized people. It enabled adminiftration to fecure and detain perfons charged with, or fufpected...high treafon, committed in America or on the high feas, or the crime of piracy. An act had been made in the reign of HENRY VIII. before the exiftence... | |
 | Adam Anderson - Commerce - 1801 - 782 pages
...bill for further continuing an aft made in the I7th year of his prefent Majefty, entitled, " An Aft to empower his Majefty to fecure and detain perfons charged with or fufpefted of the crime of high treafon, committed in any of his Majefty's colonies or plantations in... | |
 | Parliament proc - 1802 - 370 pages
...drainage of the Middle and South Levels, and the feveral navigations through the fame; and for impofing taxes on the lands within the faid Levels, and laying...Majefty to fecure and detain perfons charged with, or fufpecled of, the crime of high treafon, committed in America, or on the high feas, or the crime of... | |
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Order of the day; the fecond reading of the bill to empower his Majefty to fecure and detain perfons charged with, or fufpecled of, the crime of high treafon, committed in America, or on the high feas, or the crime of piracy. 