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Justices and constables, &c. may enter into any house, &c. in which spirits, &c. are sold, and remove persons tippling or gaming during prohibited hours.
Persons not quitting, or resisting justices, &c. may be apprehended, &c.
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6. It shall and may be lawful for any justice of the peace or for any chief constable, or for any churchwarden or overseer in the said recited Act or herein-after mentioned, or for any constable authorized for the purpose by any such justice, within the limits of his jurisdiction, to enter into any house, booth, tent, or other place kept by any person selling or having a licence to sell spirits, wine, or beer by retail, at any time or hour during which the sale of spirits, wine, or beer is by this Act prohibited therein, and to remove from and put out of such house, booth, tent, or other place any person who shall be found within such prohibited hours in such house, booth, tent, or other place (not being a lodger or inmate thereof) and who shall appear to be or to have recently been drinking, tippling, or gaming therein; and if any such person shall not, when thereto required by such justice of the peace, chief or other constable, churchwarden or overseer as aforesaid, remove from and quit such house, booth, tent, or other place, or shall forcibly resist such justice, constable, churchwarden, or overseer, or shall be found drunk therein, it shall and may be lawful for any constable, churchwarden, or overseer to apprehend and take into custody any such person so offending, and to carry and convey or cause to be carried and conveyed every and any such person so apprehended before any justice of the peace within whose jurisdiction such house, booth, tent, or other place shall be situate, to be dealt with according to law; and every such person who shall so neglect or refuse to remove from or quit such house, booth, tent, or other place, or shall so forcibly resist such justice, constable, churchwarden, or overseer, or be so found drunk in such house, booth, tent, or other place, being duly convicted of such offence, shall thereupon for every such offence forfeit any sum not exceeding twenty shillings nor less than five shillings; and if any offender so convicted shall not forthwith pay the sum so forfeited, such offender shall be committed to the common gaol or any house of correction or bridewell of the county or place for any time not exceeding one week.
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