If any person or persons, in the city or counties aforesaid, shall use, for the measuring of lime, a bushel of any other dimensions, or not stamped as is hereinbefore directed, he or they shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollars for every such offence, to be recovered before any alderman or justice of the peace, upon due proof to him made, in the same manner that debts of the like sum are recoverable, to be paid to the treasurer of the county wherein the offence was committed, for the use of the county.
53 P.S. § 16772