7159. Aduiltex-ation   of   oranges.    TJ.    S.   *    *    *   v.   462   Boxes   of   Oranges.
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture.    Prodiiet ordered 
released on fcond.     (F. & D. No. 9763.    I. S. No. 12682-r.    S. No. E-1249.)
On February 19, 1919, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel of information, pray- 
ing the seizure and condemnation of 462 boxes oft oranges, at Boston, Mass., 
consigned on January 25, 1919, alleging that the article had been shipped by 
the Fay Fruit Co., Riverside, Cal., and transported from the State of California 
into the State of Massachusetts, and charging adulteration in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel of information for the 
reason that it consisted in whole or in part of a decomposed vegetable substance.
On February 28, 1919, Fred A. Russell, Boston, Mass., claimant, having filed 
a satisfactory bond in conformity with section 10 of the act, judgment of con- 
demnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that 
the product should be delivered to said claimant upon payment of the cost of 
the proceedings.
E. D. BALL, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.