10471. Adnltei'ation   of   scallops.     V.   S.     *     *     *     v.   Lee  Roy   Carson   and
Isaac H. Tawes (L.. R. Carson). Plea of guilty. Fine, $10 and 
costs. (F. & D. No. 11958. I. S. Nos. 12835-r, 13748-r, 14703-r, 14937-r, 
15375-r, 15553-r, 17877-r.)
On April 27, 1920, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of 
North Carolina, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district an information 
against Lee Roy Carson and Isaac H. Tawes, trading as L. R. Carson, More- 
head City, N. C, alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation of the 
Food and Drugs Act, on or about March 5, 1919, from the State of North Caro- 
lina into the State of Massachusetts, on or about January 24 and March 5, 
1919, from the State of North Carolina into the State of New York, on or about 
January 24, 1919, from the State of North Carolina into the State of Pennsyl- 
vania, on or about January 24 and 31, 1919, from the State of North Carolina 
into the District of Columbia, and on or about March 7, 1919, from the State 
of North Carolina into the State of New Jersey, of quantities of an article 
of food, to wit, scallops, which was adulterated.
Analyses of samples of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this depart- 
ment showed the presence of 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 strength, and had 
been substituted in part for scallops, which the article purported to be.
On April 27, 1922, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendants, and the court imposed a fine of $10 and costs.
C. W. PTJGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.