Section V Officers of Excise may break up the Ground in a Common Brewhouse, &c. and search for private Pipes; ; and may turn Cocks, &c.

And for the better discovering of all such Pipes Stop-cocks and other private Conveyances aforesaid Be it further enacted That from and after the said Eight and twentieth Day of April it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Gaugers and Officers of Excise or any of them in the Day time and in the presence of a Constable or other lawfull Officer for the Peace on Request first made and Cause declared to break upp the Ground in any Co[m]mon Brew-house or the Ground neare adjoyning or any Wall Partition or other Place to search for any such private Pipe or other private Conveyance and upon finding any such Pipe or other private Conveyance to follow the same and to break upp the Ground House Wall or other Partition or Place through or into which any such Pipe or other private Conveyance shall lead and to break upp or cutt any such Pipe or other private Conveyance and to turne any Cock or Cocks to try and examine whether such Pipe or other Private Conveyance may or can convey any Beer Ale or Worts out of one Tun or Brewing Vessell into another or out of X1any such Tun or Brewing Vessel into any other Place.