Section 15. If any person or persons shall wilfully pull down, break or destroy, with intent to injure any part of parts of the said bridge, or any toll house, gates, bars or other property of the said corporation, erected for the use of said bridge, or the persons employed in conducting the business thereof, or shall wilfully deform or destroy the letters or figures, in any list of the rates of tolls affixed in any place for the information of passengers, or who shall wilfully and maliciously obstruct or impede the passage on or over the said bridge, or any part or parts thereof, he, she or they so offending shall, each of them, forfeit and pay for every such offence, to the said corporation, the sum of thirty dollars, to be sued for and recovered before any justice of the peace or alderman as debts of like amount are recoverable, and he, she or they so offending shall remain liable to actions at the suit of said corporation, for such wrongs, if the said sum or sums herein mentioned by not sufficient to repair and satisfy said damages: Provided always, That no such suit shall be brought unless within thirty days after such offence shall have been committed, and the judgment of the said justice of alderman shall be liable to reversal, as provided for in similar cases by law.
Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.