Seizure, forfeiture, and sale of liquors.

24. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace Constable or other Peace Officer without warrant to seize all such fermented and spirituous liquors as shall be hawked and conveyed about or exposed to sale in any street road footpath or in any booth tent stall or shed or in any boat or vessel or any other place whatever by any person not licensed according to law to sell the same in such place and the vessels containing the same and all the vessels and utensils used for drinking or measuring the same and any cart dray or other carriage and any horse or horses or other animal or animals employed in drawing or carrying the same as well as any boat or vessel used in the conveyance of such liquors as aforesaid and it shall be lawful for any one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace on his or their own view or if after due enquiry and examination it shall page 53 appear to the said Justice or Justices that such liquors were hawked or conveyed about for the purpose of being illegally sold or disposed of by retail to adjudge the said liquors and vessels and utensils containing the same and any cart dray or other carriage horse or horses or other animal or animals as well as any boat or vessel used in conveying the same to be condemned and forfeited and the same shall and may he sold and the proceeds thereof paid and applied as appointed by law : Provided that nothing in this Ordinance contained shall prevent any penalty or punishment being inflicted on any person so offending as aforesaid under any other Law Act or Ordinance now or hereafter to be in force in the said Province : Provided further that in all cases where fermented or spirituous liquors shall be carried from one place to another the burden of proving that such fermented or spirituous liquors were not so carried for sale or exposed to sale shall be cast upon the party or parties so carrying them.