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Penalty on victuallers, &c. refusing to admit any justice or constable, not exceeding 5l.;
to be levied by distress, &c.
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18. If any victualler or other person selling or licensed to sell beer, ale, or spirituous liquors, shall not on demand made of entrance, by knocking or otherwise, so as to be heard within, admit any divisional justice or justices, or any chief or other constable or constables as aforesaid, into any dwelling house or place of such victualler or other person for the purpose of making such search as aforesaid; or if such victualler or other person selling or licensed to sell as aforesaid shall neglect or delay, for an unreasonable time after such demand of entrance, to admit any justice or justices, or any chief or other constable or constables as aforesaid, into any dwelling house or place of such victualler or other person, in order thereby to defeat or counteract the object of such search or intended search as aforesaid; such victualler or other person so offending shall, upon due proof thereof before any one divisional justice of the division in which such dwelling house or place shall be situate, or before any one justice of the Castle division, forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding five pounds, at the discretion of such justice; the same, in default of payment on demand, to be levied by distress and sale of the offender's goods, and when levied to be paid over to the receiver of the public offices; and in default of a sufficient distress, then it shall and may be lawful for such divisional justice to commit the offender to the house of correction for any space of time not exceeding fourteen days, or until such penalty shall be sooner paid.
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