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Power to search for pipes, &c.
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139. Any officer, or person acting in his aid, may, either by day or by night, for the purpose of searching for any pipe, cock, conveyance, or utensil, break up the ground in or adjoining or near the premises of a distiller or rectifier, or any wall or partition of his premises or any other place, and may, on finding any pipe or conveyance leading to or from the premises, break up or break any ground, house, wall, or other place through or into which the pipe or conveyance leads, and may break up or cut away any such pipe or conveyance, and turn any such cock, and examine whether any such pipe pr conveyance conveys or conceals any spirits or any liquor used in the manufacture of spirits, so as to prevent a true account thereof from being taken.
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