If any person or persons whosoever, shall from and after the passing of this act, burn or bream, or cause to be burned or breamed, any ship or vessel or any part thereof, at or near any wharf or wharves between South and Vine streets, in the said city (Philadelphia) he or they so offending, for every such offense, shall forfeit and pay to the said master warden the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, to be by him recovered and appropriated as other forfeitures herein mentioned, are to be recovered and appropriated by the thirty-sixth section of this act.
55 P.S. § 441