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Chief constables and chiefs of police may search the premises of possessors of purloined or embezzled property without a justice’s warrant, upon emergency, &c.
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7. [1]
All chief constables and chiefs of police in any district in Ireland, upon receiving information that stolen or purloined and embezzled linen, hempen, cotton, silk, or woollen yarns, or cloths made of any one or any mixture of these materials, or tools or apparatus for manufacturing the same, or that such yarns or goods suspected of being stolen or purloined and embezzled, are deposited in certain specified premises, and that there is reason to apprehend that such yarns or goods will be removed before a warrant can be obtained from a justice, shall henceforth have power, by themselves or their officers, or by constables to search the said premises, and to seize such yarns or goods, and either to summon the person within whose premises the same shall be found, and who shall be bound to answer said summons under a penalty not exceeding forty pounds, or to apprehend the person within whose premises the same shall be found, and to lodge the yarns or goods so seized, and the person within whose premises the same shall be found, in a police office or other place of security, in order that he may be brought before a justice of the peace for examination, as before directed.
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