Shays's Rebellion Quotes

“One measure, officially labeled the Riot Act, proclaimed that sheriffs and other officials “shall be indemnified and held guiltless” for killing rioters who failed to disperse or resisted capture, and that the rioters “shall forfeit all their lands, tenements, goods and chattels to the Commonwealth . . . and shall be whipped 39 stripes on the naked back, at the public whipping post and suffer imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months.” While in jail, moreover, the rioters were to receive thirty-nine stripes every three months. Another”
― Leonard L. Richards, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle