Section I From June 5, 1790, women convicted of high treason, &c. to be hanged.

From and after the fifth day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety the judgement to be given and awarded against any woman or women convicted of the crime of high treason, . . . F1, shall not be that such woman or women shall be severally F2drawn to the place of execution and be there burned to death, but that such woman or women being so convicted as aforesaid shall be severally . . . hanged by the neck until she or they be severally dead, any law or usage to the contrary thereof in anywise notwithstanding.