Pennsylvania Act 1849-178 — RELIEF AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOR IN PHILADELPHIA

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RELIEF AND EMPLOYMENT OF THE POOR IN PHILADELPHIA
                 Act of Mar. 20, 1849, P.L. 214, No. 178              Cl. 11
                               A SUPPLEMENT

     To an act, entitled "An Act for the relief and employment of the
        poor of the city of Philadelphia, the district of Southwark,
        and the townships of the Northern Liberties and Penn," passed
        the fifth day of March, Anno Domini one thousand eight
        hundred and twenty-eight.

        Section 2.  Enforcement of penalties by action of debt
        In addition to the remedies now provided by law for the
     recovery of the penalties imposed by the seventeenth and
     eighteenth sections of the act to which this is a supplement,
     and which have been or may hereafter be incurred, in action of
     debt, in the name of the said guardians, may be brought therefor
     in any court, or before any magistrate having jurisdiction of
     the amount claimed against the master, and owners and
     consignees, or any or either of them, of any ship or vessel now
     declared by the nineteenth section of the said act to be liable
     for any such penalties.  1849, March 20, P.L. 214, Sec. 2.