《后汉书·本纪·光武帝纪下》
派谒者进行检查，判处死刑的囚犯在九月初五日以前的，免死减罪一等；判徒刑的解除镣铐，可以穿丝絮衣裳，郡中居民被压死的，每人给棺材钱三千。
遣谒者案行，其死罪系囚在戊辰以前，减死罪一等；徒皆弛解钳，衣丝絮。赐郡中居人压死者棺钱，人三千。
Inspectors were dispatched to examine, and prisoners sentenced to death before September 5th were exempted from death and the sentence reduced by one level; those sentenced to forced labour were released from their shackles and could wear silk and cotton clothes, and each of the residents of the area crushed to death were given three-thousand cash for a coffin.