10448. Adulteration of   oysters.     V.   S.     *      *      *     v.   Richard   W.    Claxton.
Collateral of $50 forfeited. (F. & D. No. 14995. I. S. Nos. 8713-t, 
8818-t,  8819-t.)
On or about February 21, 1922, the United States attorney for the District 
of Columbia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
police court of the District aforesaid an information against Richard W. 
Claxton, Washington, D. C, alleging that on January 11 and 27, 1921, re- 
spectively, the said defendant did offer for sale and sell at the District of 
Columbia, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, quantities of oysters which 
were adulterated.
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed that it contained added water.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a substance, to wit, water, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to 
lower and reduce and injuriously affect its quality and had been substituted 
in part for oysters, which the said article purported to be. Adulteration was 
alleged for the further reason that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit, 
oyster solids, had been in part abstracted.
On February 21, 1922, the defendant having failed to enter an appearance, 
the $50 collateral which had been deposited by him to insure his appearance 
was declared forfeited by the court.
C. W. PXJGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.