4691.   Adulteration of walnuts.     IT. S.     *   ? *     *     v. 25 Bags of Walnuts.     Con??
sent decree of conden?iati?n  and forfeiture.     Product  ordered  released
on "bond.     (F. & D. No. 7109.    I. S. No. 1255-1.    S. No. E-502.)
On December 11, 1915, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of?
Pennsylvania, 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 25 bags, of 110 pounds each, of walnuts, consigned by Bennett,?
Day & 'Co., New York, N. Y., and remaining unsold in the original unbroken?
packages at Philadelphia, Pa., alleging that the article had been shipped, on or?
about December 1, 1915, and transported from the State of New York into the?
State of Pennsylvania, and charging adulteration in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act. The shipping containers were marked: "110 lbs. P. & C. Marcots?
Mixture France."    A portion of them were also marked " Extra Select."
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
consisted, in whole or in part, of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On December 21, 1915, Bennett, Day & Co., New York, N. Y., having appeared?
as claimant of the property, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was en??
tered, 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 execu??
tion of bond in the sum of $400, in conformity with section 10 of the act.
CAKL- VEOOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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