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Constables may break open dwelling houses, &c. to search for traitors, felons, &c., on the warrant of one divisional justice.
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13. [Recital.] It shall and may be lawful for any and every constable appointed or to be appointed under the said recited Act, or who may be appointed under this Act, being duly authorized thereto by the warrant of any one divisional justice of the said police district of Dublin metropolis, and which warrant any one such divisional justice, whether he be an alderman or not, on information on oath to him given, is hereby authorized to grant, to break open any dwelling house, outhouse, shop, warehouse, cellar, or other place named in such warrant, as shall not be opened on demand after due notice of such warrant, in order to search for any traitor, or felon, or for any accessory to any traitor or felon, or for any receiver of stolen goods, or to search for any goods, chattels, or other things, stolen or feloniously taken or carried away; and any and every warrant so to be granted by any such one divisional justice shall to all intents and purposes be as valid and effectual in the law as any warrant in any such case by two divisional justices, one thereof being an alderman, have[1]
been or could have been under the said recited Act; and the divisional justice who shall grant, and the constable or constables who shall execute, any such warrant so herein and hereby authorized, shall respectively have the same privileges, benefits, advantages, and defences, by virtue or on the foot of any such warrant, and upon any proceedings whatever brought, had, or instituted against them, or any of them, on account of the issuing or execution of any such warrant, and in every other respect whatever, as the divisional justices or constables respectively have heretofore respectively had or could have had under the said recited Act, in cases where, conformably with the provisions thereof in that behalf, such warrants should or might have been granted by two divisional justices, one thereof being an alderman.
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