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Justices to inforce,
and administer oath,
penalties not applied, to informer with full costs, and the parish poor,
suspected places searched on warrant, for trees, &c.
if found, the party brought before the justice,
not proving fairly bought or given by owner, convicted and subject to the penalties.
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VI. And be it further, enacted by the authority aforesaid, that his Majesty’s justices of the peace within their several and respective jurisdictions are hereby authorized to put this act in execution, and to administer an oath to any such credible witness or witnesses as shall appear before them; and that one moiety of all such forfeitures and pecuniary penalties to be inflicted by this act, and not otherwise applied, shall be paid to the informer with full costs, and the other moiety to the poor of the parish, and that it shall and may be lawful for any constable or other person by warrant under the hand and seal of any one justice of the peace to make search in all suspected houses and places within the jurisdiction of such justice for any timber or fruit trees, sticks, shoots, shrubs, plants, foots, or bark; and if such constable or person shall find any such in the possession, house, out house, field, or ground of any person suspected to be guilty of any of the offences aforesaid, he shall bring such suspected persons before such justice of the peace; and if such suspected person shall not make full and clear proof to the satisfaction of such justice, that such timber, or fruit tree, sticks, shoots, shrubs, plants, roots, or bark, were fairly and honestly bought by such person, or given to him or her by the owner or proprietor thereof, in default thereof, and not otherwise, such suspected person shall be judged, and deemed, and shall stand convicted of a breach of this act, and shall be subject to the several penalties herein directed for such offence.
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