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Entry of premises or buildings may be effected by forcible 
means if necessary; but no more force must be used or 
damage done than is requisite to accomplish the entry 
and search as authorized by the warrant. For all articles 
seized the officer must give a receipt. It is always desir¬ 
able to have outside parties other than forest or police 
officers present at a search, if possible the proprietor or 
members of his family. This is a valuable safeguard 
against possible trouble in court. 
In search by appropriate means under a duly issued 
warrant the executing officer is protected, even though it 
should develop that the search was made on misinforma¬ 
tion; but he would be liable for the exercise of unnecessary 
violence or for damage. 
Permission can sometimes be obtained to search without 
warrant by an officer clearly entitled to obtain such a 
warrant, especially if the person whose premises it is 
desired to search is amenable to the consideration that, 
even if one is innocent of connection with any offense, 
subjection to proper search is one of the duties of citizen¬ 
ship in aiding the processes of the laws wdiich protect all. 
If he still hesitates, ask him point blank if he is concerned 
in the offense and, on his denial, point out that such 
denial constitutes the reason why he should not object; 
that objection will only give you the trouble of getting a 
warrant, and will justify a suspicion which will necessitate 
a more thorough search. 
If a search of premises is made without warrant, with 
the owner’s permission, and anything is found which it 
will be desired to use in court, a warrant for its seizure 
should be secured as soon as possible after thus actually 
seizing it; or if there is no danger of its being removed and 
secreted in the meantime, the seizure itself should be 
postponed until such a warrant can be secured, in order 
to forestall the attorney for the defense making trouble, 
or causing annoyance in court upon this point as a pretext. 
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EXPENSES IN CONNECTION WITH LEGAL PROCESSES. 
Forest officers will be officially reimbursed for all neces¬ 
sary expenses incurred in accordance with the fiscal and 
