4278. Adulteration
 of oats. IT. S. * * * v. 2 Carloads of Oats. Consent?
decree of condemnation, and forfeiture. Prodoet ordered released?
on bond.    (P. & D. No. 6690.    I. S. Nos. 15S38-k, 16164-k.    S. No. E-346.)
On July 2, 1915, tlie United States attorney for the Eastern District of Vir??
ginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Dis??
trict Court of the United States for said
 district a libel for the seizure and?
condemnation of 2 carloads of oats, remaining unsold and unloaded from?
the cars at
 Richmond, Va., alleging that the product had been shipped on or?
about June 24, 1915, by S. Zorn &
G&., Louisville, Ky., and transported from?
the State of Kentucky into the State of Virginia for export to a'-'foreign?
country, and charging adulteration in violation of the.Food and Drugs: Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that said?
oats had been mixed and packed with a certain substance, to wit, water, so?
as to reduce and lower and injuriously affect their quality- and strength,! and?
further in that a certain substance, to wit, water, had been substituted: impart?
for oats.?
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On July 17, 1915, the said S. Zorn & Co., Louisville, Ky., claimant, having?
admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture?
was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product should be "re??
leased to said claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the?
execution of bond in the sum of $2,000, in conformity with section 10 of the?
act. It was further ordered by the court that the marshal, before executing?
the release of the product, should see and require that the oats be dried so?
as to remove all added water.
GAEL VKOOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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