Note 1171 — Chapter XVI · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF MARRIAGE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903
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For adultery the Massachusetts statute prescribed the gallows, whipping, and the scarlet badge; Act of Feb. 17, 1785; Laws of the Com. of Mass., 1780-1816, I, 217; and the gallows with fine, whipping, or imprisonment appears in the early New Hampshire laws: Laws of the State (1794), 294, 295, 285.