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Justices and constables may enter any house in which spirits, &c. are sold, and put out persons found met or assembled illegally, and remove banners, &c.
Persons not quitting house or resisting justices, &c. may be apprehended, &c.
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9. It shall and may be lawful for any justice of the peace, or for any chief constable or for any constable authorized for the purpose by any such justice or chief constable, 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 to be consumed on the premises or otherwise, in which such justice or chief constable shall, from information on oath or otherwise, have reason to believe or suspect that any such body, union, society, or assembly is met or held, or on or from which any such sign, flag, symbol, colour, decoration, or emblem shall be hung out or displayed, and to remove from and put out of such house or place any person who shall be found met or assembled therein with or as members of or belonging to any such body, union, society, or assembly, and to remove and take away and destroy, if he shall think proper, any arms, banners, flags, colours, symbols, emblems or decorations found on or with such persons, or hanging out or displayed on or from such house or other place, and to require every such person so found to state truly to him his name and place of abode, and to require the immediate inspection of and take possession of any book of proceedings or other book used at such meeting or brought thereto, and to detain such book for such time as he may think proper, not exceeding fourteen days; and if any such person shall not, when thereto required by such justice of the peace, chief or other constable as aforesaid, remove from and quit such house, or if any person whatsoever shall forcibly resist such justice or constable, it shall and may be lawful for any constable to apprehend and take into custody any 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, or who shall refuse to state his name and place of abode, or shall not truly state the same, 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 goal, bridewell, or house of correction, for any time not exceeding one week.
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