Pennsylvania Act 1848-21 — HEALTH OFFICE ESTABLISHED PORT OF PHILADELPHIA - SECURE CITY FROM DISEASE

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HEALTH OFFICE ESTABLISHED PORT OF PHILADELPHIA - SECURE CITY FROM DISEASE
                   Act of Feb. 3, 1848, P.L. 18, No. 21               Cl. 11
                           A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT

     To an act, entitled "An Act for establishing a health office,
        and to secure the city and port of Philadelphia from the
        introduction of pestilential and contagious diseases, and for
        other purposes," passed January twenty-nine, one thousand
        eight hundred and eighteen, and the several supplements
        thereto.

        Section 2.  Recovery of indefinite penalties
        Whenever any penalty, given by law to the Board of Health, is
     not fixed and definite in amount, but varies at the discretion
     of the court, the same shall, in such cases, be collected and
     recovered only by indictment.  1848, Feb. 3, P.L. 18, Sec. 2.