Section 241. Search warrants where wreck is involved.

Where a receiver of wreck suspects or receives information that any wreck is released or is in the possession of some person who is not the owner thereof or that any wreck is otherwise improperly dealt with, he may apply to the nearest Judicial Magistrate of the first class for a search warrant and such Magistrate shall have power to grant the warrant and the receiver of wreck by virtue thereof may enter any house or other place wherever situate and also any ship and search for, seize and detain any such wreck found thereof