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Certain oaths relating to the excise revenue excepted.
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4. Provided always, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend to abolish or in any manner to interfere with the oath required to be made by any officer of excise, setting forth the ground of his suspicion of goods forfeited under any Act or Acts relating to the revenue of excise being deposited or concealed in any place, in order to obtaining a warrant for entering such place and seizing such goods; or any oath required by any Act to be made by any person on claiming or receiving any pension or allowance; or the oath required to be made by every exporter of goods, before receiving any drawback from the revenue of excise, that he is the real owner of the goods exported, and that the goods are really and bonâ fide exported to foreign parts and have not been relanded; . . . ; or any oath administered to any person in any judicial proceeding in any court of justice, or before the commissioners of excise or justices of the peace, for recovery of any penalty or forfeiture, or obtaining any abatement, return, or allowance of duties; but all such oaths shall continue to be required, and to be made, taken, and administered, as if this Act had not been passed.
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