NOTICE OF JUDGMENT NO. 2486.
(Given pursuant to section 4 of the Woodland Drugs Act.)
U.  S. v. 18 Sacks  Shell Oysters.   Decree of condemnation  by  default.
Goods ordered destroyed.
ADULTERATION OF SHELL OYSTERS.
On December 16, 1912, the United States Attorney for the District 
of Maryland, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, 
filed in the District Court of the United States for said district a 
libel for the seizure and condemnation of 13 sacks of shell oysters 
remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and in possession 
of J. T. Money, Baltimore, Md., alleging that the product had been 
shipped in interstate commerce from the State of New Jersey into 
the State of Maryland, and charging adulteration in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act. The product was labeled: "J. T. Meany, 
Baltimore, Md. Primes Culls From C. W. Hand, Planters and Ship- 
pers of Maurice River Cove Oysters. Bell Phone 10 Bivalve, N. J. 
This Package Contains Floated Oysters."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason 
that it consisted of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance, 
to wit, filthy, decomposed, and putrid oysters.
On February 18, 1913, no claimant having appeared for the prop- 
erty, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered and it 
was further ordered that the product should be destroyed by the 
United States marshal.
B. T. GALLOWAY, 
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June #, 1913.
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