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Justices, constables, &c. required to assist revenue officers.
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35. All justices of the peace, mayors, bailiffs, constables, and all his Majesty's officers, ministers, and subjects, serving under his Majesty, by commission, warrant, or otherwise, shall be aiding and assisting, and they are hereby respectively required to be aiding and assisting, to every officer of excise in the due execution of any act or thing required and enjoined by this Act, or by any other Act or Acts of Parliament relating to the revenue of excise, to be done; and all such persons who shall be so aiding and assisting unto any such officer of excise as aforesaid are and shall be defended and saved harmless by virtue of this Act; and if any such person shall be sued or prosecuted for or on account of any act, matter, or thing by such person done in giving such aid and assistance, every such person shall and may plead the general issue, and give this Act and the special matter in evidence in defence in such behalf.
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