Power to seize concealed wreck

(1) If any Receiver suspects or receives information that any wreck is secreted or in the possession of some person who is not the owner thereof, or otherwise improperly dealt with, he may apply to any justice of the peace for a warrant, and such justice of the peace shall have power to grant a warrant, under which it shall be lawful for the Receiver to enter into any house or other place wherever situate, and also into any ship or boat, and to search for, and to seize and detain the wreck there found. (2) If any such seizure is made in consequence of information that may have been given by any person to the Receiver, the informer shall be entitled by way of salvage to such sum not exceeding in any case fifty dollars as the Receiver may allow. 13