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In case of the death, removal, or absence of any officer of excise in whose name any information may have been exhibited, the proceedings may be carried on by any other officer.
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22. Where in any case any information for the recovery of any penalty incurred, or the condemnation of any goods, commodities, articles, or things forfeited, under any law or laws relating to the revenue of excise, shall by order of the commissioners of excise be exhibited before the commissioners of excise, or before any justice or justices of the peace, and the officer of excise by whom or in whose name such information shall be or shall have been exhibited shall die, or be removed or discharged, or at the time of hearing may be absent, such information shall not, by such death,, removal, or discharge, or by the absence of such officer, abate or be diminished, but all the proceedings on such information shall be continued and may be proceeded on by any other officer of excise in the name of the officer by whom the same shall have been exhibited; and the said commissioners of excise and the justices shall, on the day named and appointed in the summons to be issued in that behalf, proceed to hear and determine the matter of such information, and shall examine all such witnesses as shall be tendered to them for examination by any officer of excise in support of such information, notwithstanding such death, removal, or discharge, or the absence of the officer of excise by whom or in whose name such information shall be or shall have been exhibited; and all the proceedings on such information, and all proceedings for recovery of any penalty awarded thereon, or for the arrest and imprisonment of any defendant for nonpayment of such penalty, or for condemnation of any goods, commodities, articles, or things, shall be good, valid, and effectual.
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