72. Power to search for pipes, etc.
Any officer or police officer may at any time in searching for any distillery apparatus, pipe, conveyance or utensil break up the ground in or near the premises of a distiller, or any wall or partition of such premises, or any other place, and may on finding any pipe or conveyance leading to or from such premises break up any ground, house wall or other place through or into which the pipe or conveyance leads and may break up or cut away any such pipe or conveyance and turn any cock thereon and examine whether any such pipe or conveyance conceals or conveys any spirits or any liquor used in the manufacture of spirits so as to prevent a true account thereof from being taken by an officer. If any damage is done in the search, and such search is unsuccessful, the damage shall be made good at the cost of the State.