Section 11Part 0 —
Warrant may issue in cases of concealment of wreck
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If the Governor suspects or receives information that any abandoned wreck is secreted or in the possession of some person who is not the owner thereof, or that any such wreck is otherwise unproperly dealt with, he may cause an application to be made to any Justice of the Peace for a search warrant, and that Justice may grant such a warrant, and a police officer of or above the rank of Inspector may, by virtue thereof, enter any house or other place, wherever situate, and also any vessel, and search for such wreck, and seize and detain any such wreck there found.
If any such seizure of abandoned wreck is made in consequence of information given by any person to the Governor, the informer shall be entitled, by way of reward, to such sum not exceeding in any case fifty per cent of the value of such abandoned wreck as the Governor may allow.