therewith, or upon warrant, subject in all respects to the same restrictions as prevail in regard to arrests by peace officers in general. HATICc 

SECTION 1163 . Authority to Make Searches on Land.  — The Director of Posts, the Assistant Director of Posts, and inspectors of the Bureau of Posts may make searches for mailable matter transported in violation of law; and in so doing may open and search any  car or vehicle passing, or having lately before passed, from any place at which there is a post office to any other such place, or any box, package, or packet, being, or having lately before been, in such car or vehicle, or any store or house, other than a dwelling house, used or occupied by any common carrier or transportation company, in which such box, package, or packet may be contained, whenever such agent or officer has reason to believe that mailable matter, transported contrary to law, may therein be found. SDIaCT 

SECTION 1164 . Searches and Seizures on Board Vessels . — Any officer or employee of the Bureau of Posts when instructed by the Director to make examinations and seizures, and the collector or other customs officer of any port without special instruction, sh all carefully search all vessels for letters which may be on board or which have been conveyed contrary to law. HEITAD 

SECTION 1165 . Authority of Officers to Administer Oaths and Take Testimony . — The Director of Posts, the Assistant Director of Posts, chiefs of divisions, and inspectors of the Bureau of Posts may administer oaths and take testimony in any official busines s or investigation conducted by them touching matters within the jurisdiction of the Bureau. 

SECTION 1166 . Appointment of Civil-Service Employee to Position of Postmaster . — To facilitate the establishment of post offices at places where it is not practicable to secure suitable persons not in the public service for appointment as postmaster, the D irector of Posts is authorized to appoint as postmaster persons employed in other branches of the civil service, with the approval of the head of the Department or Departments in which such persons are employed. A person in the public service who may be th us appointed shall, in addition to his salary in the branch of the service in which he is employed, receive the compensation provided for such postal service. 

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SECTION 1167 . Postmaster Serving without Compensation at Army Post . — When the commanding general of the Philippine Department shall request that a post office be opened at an Army post where it is not feasible to establish such an office on an independent  footing, the Director of Posts may, nevertheless, there establish a post office, provided a person in the military service is designated to act 

