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Resolved, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That it be Penal on all such Persons on whom Clippings are found.
But that may sometimes fall hard on some innocent People,* 1.1 for lately one Mr. Jarvis, a Tobacconist on Cock Hill, having sound out a Thief that stole some Tobacco from him, the said Thief, or some other Body for him, convey'd a parcel of Clippings in∣to
his House; for which his Wife was committed to Newgate, and was put to great Trouble, and Charge, before the could be dis∣charged from thence.
Answ.