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suitable store or place, to be approved by the Receiver General, for 

 the deposit of passengers' luggage or other goods that may be landed 

 from such steamship for examination by Customs officers. 



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POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 



147. Every officer and person who is employed under the authority 

 of any Act relating to the collection of the revenue, or under the 

 direction of any officer of Customs, shall be deemed and taken to be 

 duly employed for the prevention of smuggling and for the enforce- 

 ment of this Act in every respect, whether such officer or person is or 

 is not the holder of a writ of assistance; and in any suit or infor- 

 mation, the averment that such person was so duly employed shall 

 be prima facie proof thereof. 



148. Every such officer or person as mentioned in the next pre- 

 ceding section, and every sheriff, justice of the peace, or person resid- 

 ing more than ten miles from the residence of any officer of Customs, 

 and thereunto authorized by any collector of Customs or justice of 

 the peace, may, upon information, or upon reasonable grounds of 

 suspicion, detain, open and examine any package suspected to contain 

 prohibited property or smuggled goods, or goods respecting which 

 there has been any violation of any of the requirements of this Act, 

 and may go on board of and enter into any vessel or vehicle of any 

 description whatsoever, and may stop and detain the same, whether 

 arriving from places beyond or within the limits of this Colony, 

 and may rummage and search all parts thereof for such goods; and 

 if any such goods are found in any such vessel or vehicle, the officer 

 or person so employed may seize and secure such vessel or vehicle, 

 together with all the sails, rigging, tackle, apparel, horses, harness, 

 and all other appurtenances which at the time of such seizure be- 

 longed to or are attached to such vessel or vehicle with all goods and 

 other things laden therein or thereon, and the same shall be seized 

 and forfeited. 



149. Any officer of Customs, or person by him authorized, may 

 search any person whom he may have reasonable cause to suspect of 

 having uncustomed or prohibited goods secreted about his person. 



(1.) Whoever obstructs or offers resistance to such search or assists 

 in so doing, shall incur a penalty of one hundred dollars. 



(2.) Any person suspected as aforesaid may be questioned by such 

 officer, whether he has any such goods about his person, and 

 if he denies having any such goods, or does not produce 

 such as he may have, and any such goods are found upon 

 him on being searched, the goods shall be forfeited, and he 

 shall forfeit double the value thereof. 



(3.) Before any person can be searched as aforesaid, such person 

 may require the officer to take him before some Justice of 

 the Peace, or before the collector or chief officer of Customs 

 at the place, who shall, if he sees no reasonable cause for 

 search, discharge such person; but, if otherwise, he shall 

 direct such person to be searched, and if a female, she shall 

 not be searched by any but a female ; and any such Magis- 

 trate, Justice of the Peace or collector of the Customs, may, 

 if there is no female appointed for such purpose, employ 

 and authorize a suitable female person to act in any par- 

 ticular case or cases. 



