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Justices, constables, &c., may enter into any house in which spirits or beer is sold, and put out persons tippling or gaming at prohibited hours.
Persons not quitting, or resisting justices, &c., may be apprehended, &c.
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15. It shall and may be lawful for any justice of the peace, or for any chief constable, or for any churchwarden or overseer hereinafter mentioned, or for any constable authorized for the purpose by any such justice, within the limits of his jurisdiction, to enter into any house or place kept by any person selling or having a licence to sell spirits, wine, or beer by retail, at any time between the hours of eleven of the clock on Saturday night and two of the clock in the afternoon of Sunday, or between the hours of eleven of the clock on any other night and seven of the clock in the morning, and to remove from and put out of such house or place any person who shall be so found within such prohibited hours in such house or place (not being a lodger or inmate of such house or place), and who shall appear to be or to have recently been drinking, tippling, or gaming therein; and if any such person shall not, when thereto required by such justice of the peace, chief or other constable, churchwarden, or overseer as aforesaid, remove from and quit such house, or shall forcibly resist such justice, constable, churchwarden, or overseer, it shall and may be lawful for any constable, churchwarden, or overseer to apprehend and take into custody any such person so offending, and to carry and convey, or cause to be carried and conveyed, every and any such person so apprehended before any justice of the peace within whose jurisdiction such house or place shall be situate, to be dealt with according to law; and every such person who shall so neglect or refuse to remove from or quit such house, or shall so forcibly resist such justice, constable, churchwarden, or overseer, being duly convicted of such offence, shall thereupon for every such offence forfeit any sum not exceeding twenty shillings nor less than five shillings; and if any offender so convicted shall not forthwith pay the sum so forfeited, such offender shall be committed to the house of correction for any time not exceeding one week.
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