Pennsylvania Act 1842-13 — PRIVATE DEALINGS WITH PUBLIC MONEY PROHIBITED

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PRIVATE DEALINGS WITH PUBLIC MONEY PROHIBITED
                  Act of Feb. 11, 1842, P.L. 17, No. 13               Cl. 16
                           A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

     To an act entitled "an act to graduate lands on which money is
        due and unpaid to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

        Section 2.  Private dealing with public moneys prohibited
        If any collector, county treasurer, or other agent of the
     commonwealth, shall hereafter, either directly or indirectly,
     sell, transfer, bargain, purchase or exchange any money or notes
     of any description, received by him for tolls, taxes or other
     debts due the commonwealth, said collector, treasurer or other
     agent shall be deemed to have been guilty of a misdemeanor in
     office, and upon conviction thereof before any court of
     competent jurisdiction shall forfeit and pay, for every such
     offense, the sum of five hundred dollars, the whole amount to go
     to the benefit of the prosecutor, and shall moreover be removed
     from office, and be ineligible for reappointment or re-election,
     and the state treasurer shall immediately notify all the
     collectors and treasurers aforesaid, by circular, of the passage
     of these resolutions.  1842, April 12, P.L. 488, Sec. 2.