3590. Adulteration of beans.   U. S. v. 20? Bags of Cull Beans, More or Less.   Consent decree?
of condemnation and forfeiture.   Product ordered released on bond.   (F. & D. No.
5643.   I. S.Nos. 4514-h, 4516-h.   S. No. E-14.)
On March 20,. 1914, the United States attorney ior 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 200 bags of cull?
beans, more or less, remaining unsold in the original imbroken packages at Baltimore,?
Md., alleging that the product had been transported from the State of Michigan into?
the State of Maryland, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs?
Act.
It was alleged in the libel that the product was adulterated because it consisted of?
a filthy, putrid, and decomposed vegetable substance, to wit, decomposed beans.
On July 14, 1914, Clair H. Barrett, claimant, Detroit, Mich., having filed his answer?
admitting the allegations in the libel as to the adulteration of the beans, judgment of?
condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the?
product should be delivered to said claimant upon payment of all the costs of the?
proceedings and the execution of bond in the sum of $300, in conformity with section?
10 of the act.
D. F. HOUSTON, Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, February 19, 1915.
N. J. 3551-3600.]     SERVICE AND REGULATORY ANNOUNCEMENTS.	Ill