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Return of unexecuted warrants.
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33. Whenever the person to whom any warrant shall be so addressed, transmitted, or endorsed for execution, shall be unable to find the person against whom such warrant shall bave been issued, or his goods, as the case may be, or to discover where such person or his goods are to be found, he shall return such warrant to the justices by whom the same shall have been issued within such time as shall have been fixed by such warrant, (or within a reasonable time where no time shall have been so fixed,) and together with it a certificate (G. a.) of the reasons why the same shall not have been executed; and it shall be lawful for such justice to examine such person on oath touching the non-execution of such warrant, and to re-issue the said warrant again, or to issue any other warrant for the same purpose, from time to time as shall seem expedient.
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