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Where a distrainer may have reason to suppose ' that the property of a defaulter is lodged within a dwel- ling house, the outer door of which may ,be shut, or within any apartments appropriated to women, which, by the usage of the oountry, ase considered, :, private, such distrainer shall represent the same tosthe . ' offioer in oharge of the nearest Polioe station. On &oh ' ' representation, the officer in oharge of the said station shall send a police officer to the spot, in the preeenoe of whom the distrainer may force open the outer door of such dwelling house, in like manner as he may break open the door of any room within the house except the, m m a . The dietrainer may also, in the prssenoe of the police-officer, after due notice given for the removal of women within a zenana, and after furnishing , .mema for their removal in a imitable mmuer (if they be women of rank, who, according to the oustoms of the oountry cannot appear in public), enter the :eenana apartments for the purpose of distraining the defaulter's property deposited therein, but suoh property, if found, shall be immediately removed from suoh apartmmte after which they shall be left free to the former oooupmts. Punishment