Section 68 provides that the Collector or any Excise Officer specially empowered by the State Government in that behalf, not below the rank of Depury Collector or Superintendent of Excise, may compound offenses and release property liable to confiscation in certain circumstances on payment to the Col lector or such Excise Officer of asum of money not exceeding Rs. 500/ Section 69 empowers the Excise Commissioner, Collector or any Excise Officer not below such rank as the State Government may, by notification, prescribe and subje ct to any restrictions prescribed by the state Government by rule made under section 89, to enter and inspect any pl ace of manufacture or storage or sale of any toxicant by a licensed manufacturer and to test and seize measures and to examine accounts and registers or a place where an intoxic ant is kept for sale by such licensed person and to seize them if he had reasons to believe them to be false.