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	the said Rum, Spirits, Wine or Brandy, or the Person or Persons in whose Custody the same was seized, shall, within the said Space of Seven Days, produce a Permit or Permits for importing the said Rum, Spirits, Wine or Brandy, into this Province, agreeable to the Directions of this Act, or an Affidavit of some credible Person, taken before some Justice of the Peace in this Province, that the same had been legally imported into this Province, or distilled within the same, then, in such Case, the said Person or Persons who seized the same, shall redeliver the said Rum, Spirits, Wine or Brandy, to the Owner or Owners, or Person or Persons in whose Custody the same was seized, on receiving back such Sum or Sums of Money as the Person making such Seizure shall have expended in removing, lodging, and securing the same.	Liber H. S. No.1
	And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That if any Naval-Officer, Sheriff, Deputy-Sheriff, or Constable, shall be informed by any credible Person, or have good Reason to suspect, that any Rum, Spirits, Wine or Brandy, has been imported into this Province by Land from Pennsylvania, or the Counties of New- Castle, Kent and Sussex, or the reputed Limits of the said Province or Counties, contrary to the Intention and Direction of this Act, such Naval-Officer, Sheriff, Deputy-Sheriff, or Constable, are hereby	[Officers may enter suspected Places.]
	authorized and required to enter at any Time between the Rising and Setting of the Sun, into any Ship or Ships, Sloop or Sloops, Boat or Boats, Vessel or Vessels, House or Houses, Vault or Vaults, Cellar or Cellars, or other suspected Places, to search for such Rum, Spirits, Wine or Brandy, and to seize the same, together with the Cask or Casks, or other Vessel, which contain the same (unless the Owner or Owners of such Rum, Spirits, Wine, or Brandy, or the Person or Persons in whose Custody the same is seized, shall imme- diately produce a Permit or Permits for importing the same, agree- able to the Directions of this Act); and the same Rum, Spirits, Wine or Brandy, so seized, to carry and lodge in some secure Place, for the Space of Seven Days after such Seizure; and if the Owner or Owners of such Rum, Spirits, Wine or Brandy, or the Person or Persons in whose Custody the same was seized, shall, within the said Space of Seven Days, produce a Permit or Permits for importing the said Rum, Spirits, Wine or Brandy, into this Province, agreeable to the Directions of this Act, or on Affidavit of some credible Person, taken before some Justice of the Peace within this Province, that the same had been legally imported into this Province, or distilled within this Province, then, and in such Case, the Person or Persons who seized the same, shall deliver the said Rum, Spirits, Wine or Brandy, to the Owner or Owners, or Person or Persons in whose Custody the same was seized, on receiving back such Sum or Sums of Money, as the Person making such Seizure shall have expended in removing, lodging, and securing the same.	p. 367