5345. Adulterations of eliestnnts. IT. S. * * * v. 5 Bags of * * * 
Chestnuts. Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and de- 
struction.    (F. & D. No. 7831.    I. S. No. 2019-m.    S. No. H-733.)
On October 25, 1916, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
New York, 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 5 bags of wormy and moldy chestnuts, remaining unsold in the 
original unbroken packages, at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had 
been shipped on or about October 24, 1916, by L. G. Oockram, Vesta, Va., and 
transported from the State of Virginia into the State of New York, and charging 
adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
It was charged in substance in the libel that the article was adulterated for 
the reason that it consisted in part, of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable 
substance, to wit, wormy and moldy chestnuts.
On November 14, 1916, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg- 
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
It. A. PEARSON, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.