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Justice may grant search warrants;
and detain property or persons.
Persons convicted of having stolen property in their possession guilty of a misdemeanor.
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6. If any credible person shall make oath before a justice of the peace, that there is a reasonable cause to suspect that any person has in his possession or on his premises any purloined or embezzled cloths, yarns, materials, tools, or apparatus, such justice is hereby authorized and required to grant his warrant to search the dwelling house and premises of such person, and, if any such property shall be found therein, to cause the same, and the person in whose possession or on whose premises the same shall be found, to be brought before him or some other justice of the peace, who is hereby authorized to order his detention until the court of petty sessions or of quarter sessions of the district, unless he enter into such bail, with two solvent and sufficient sureties, as may be required for his appearance before the said court on any day to be fixed by such justice; and if the person so apprehended shall not give an account to the satisfaction of such court how he came by the same, then the said person shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished in manner hereinafter mentioned, although no proof shall be given to whom such property belongs.
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