5556. Adulteration of beans. U. S. * * * v. 15 Bags of Beans. Consent 
decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product ordered released 
on bond.    (F. & D. No. 7544.    I. S. No. 4674-1.    S. No. E-649.)
On June 14, 1916, the United States attorney for 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 15 bags of beans, consigned by George L. Jessap, Pompeii, Mich., remaining 
unsold in the original unbroken packages at Baltimoi'e, Md., alleging that the 
article had been shipped and transported from the State of Michigan into the 
State of Maryland, the shipment having arrived at Baltimore, Md., on or about 
June 2, 1916, and charging adulteration in violatiou of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
contained cull beans, decomposed beans, moldy and anthracnose beans, clumps 
of dirt, kernel [of] corn, and grains of wheat.
On'July 31, 1916, Edward P. Smith, trading as E. P. Smith & Co., Baltimore, 
Md., claimant, having admitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of con- 
demnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that 
the product should be released to said claimant upon the payment of the costs 
of the proceedings and the execution of a bond- in the sum of $250, in conformity 
with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that the product should be 
sorted, and that the portion found to be adulterated should not be sold or 
disposed of for any purpose other than fertilizer, cattle, hog, or other animal 
food, and that the portion found free of adulteration after sorting might be 
sold for human consumption.
C. F. MAKVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.