3145.?Adulteration, of peaches.    IT. S. v. 4 Bag's of Peaches.    Default decree
of   condemnation,   forfeiture,   and   destruction.     (F.   &   D.   No.   5282.?
S. No. 1872.)
On July 22, 1913, 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 4 bags of peaches, remaining unsold in the original unbroken packages and?
in possession of the Chesapeake Steamship Co., at Baltimore, Md., alleging that?
the product had been transported from the State of Virginia into the State of?
Maryland, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.?
The product was labeled: " Shipped by Hamlin and Co. P. O. Address Danville?
Va. R. S. Jackson Produce Co. Produce Commission Merchants Egg Poultry?
Butter   No. 113 S. Charles St., Baltimore, Md."
Adulteration of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
consisted of a filthy and decomposed vegetable substance, to wit, filthy and?
decomposed peaches.
On October 17, 1913, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment?
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, May 6, 1914.