5430.  Adulteration of scallops.     U. S.    *    *   *    v. 3 Boxes    *    *    *   of Scallops. 
Default  decree of condemnation and forfeiture.     Product  ordered
sold.     (F. & D. No. 8004.    I. S. No. 3914-m.    S. No. E-796.)
On January 11, 1917, 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 3 boxes, each containing 2 five-gallon cans of scallops, remain- 
ing unsold in the original unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that 
the article had been shipped on or about January 5, 1917, by the Morehead City 
Sea Food Co., Morehead City, N. C, and transported from the State of North 
Carolina into the State of New York, and charging adulteration in violation of 
the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the 
reason that water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce and 
lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted 
in part for said article.
On January 31, 1917, 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 sold by the United States marshal.
GAEL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.