Section XXII

Officer may break open Doors, &c. of Brewhouse, &c. to search for private Backs, &c.; and on finding private Pipe, &c. may follow the same into the House, &c. of any other Person, making Satisfaction to Owner.; Opposing Officer; Penalty £20.

And for the better preventing and discovering of all private Backs Tuns and other private and concealed Vessells or other Receptacles and of all Drains Pipes or other Conveyancs to or from the same used by any Brewer Distiller or other Maker or Retayler of Exciseable Liquors to defraud His Majestie of any of the Duties payable by them or any of them respectively Be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid That from and after the said Five and twentieth day of March that it shall and may be lawfull to and for the Officer & Officers of Excise or any of them in their respective Divisions in the Day time and in the presence of a Constable or other lawfull Officer for the Peace who are hereby respectively required to be aiding and assisting therein where they shall have a just Suspicion that any such private Backs Tuns or other Vessells aforesaid are used by any such Brewers Distillers or Makers aforesaid on Request first made and Cause declared to break open the Door or any part of such Brew-house Distilling-house Store-house Ware-house or other Roome in their respective Possessions and to enter into the same and alsoe break upp the Ground in any such Brew-house Distilling-house Store-house Ware-house or other Roome or the Ground neare adjoyning in their respective Possessions to search after such Back Tun or other Vessell aforesaid or any Pipe or other Conveyance leading thereto And in case where they shall find any private Pipe or other Conveyance to search after and follow the same and in case the same shall lead into any Ground House Out-house or Place in the Possession of any other Person or Persons on like Request and with, a Constable to enter into the same and break open the Ground or any part of the House or Houses if Occasion shall be to follow such private Pipe in order to find out and discover such private and concealed Back Tun or other Vessell into which such Pipe or other Conveyance shall lead making good the Ground or House so broken upp or giving reasonable Satisfaction for the same to the Owner or Owners thereof And in case any such Brewer Distiller or any other Person or Persons shall oppose or hinder such Officer or Officers in the due Execution of the Powers and Authorities hereby given or granted every such Brewer Distiller or other Person so doing shall forfeit and lose for every such Offence the Su[m]m of Twenty Pounds.