Purdon's Digest, A Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania, from the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred to the Twenty-Eighth Day of May, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Three, at 107, Burial Grounds § 2 (Vol. 8, 1853)

2. SECT. II. Any person who shall wilfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument, grave stone or other structure, placed in any cemetery or grave yard appropriated to, and used for the interment of human beings, within this state, or shall wilfully injure, destroy or remove any fence, railing or other work for the protection or ornament of such places of interment, or shall wilfully destroy, cut, break or remove any tree, shrub or plant within the limits of said places of interment, or shall within the same, shoot or dis charge any gun or other fire arms, or shall open any tomb or grave within the same, and clandestinely remove or attempt to remove any body or remains therefrom, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, before any justice of the peace of the county where the said offence is com mitted, be punished by a fine, at the discretion of the justice, according to the aggravation of the offence, of not less than one or more than fifty dollars, for the use of the said county, and to be enforced and collected in the same manner as forfeitures under the act of assembly of 22d day of April, 1794, for the prevention of vice and immorality, or shall on conviction thereof in the court of quarter sessions of said county, be punished by a fine as aforesaid, and by imprisonment, according to the aggravation of the offence, at the discretion of the court, for a term not exceeding one year.