10738.?Adulteration of oysters.    U.  S. v. Henry Clark Bratten.     Collateral
of $5 forfeited.     (P. & D. No. 15266.    I. S. No. 87912-t.)
On November 22, 1921, the United States attorney for the District of Colum??
bia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Police?
Court of the District aforesaid an information against Henry Clark Bratten,?
Washington, D. C, alleging that on January 12, 1921, the said defendant did?
offer for sale and sell in the District of Columbia, in violation of the Food and?
Drugs Act, a quantity of oysters which were adulterated.
Examination of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this?
department showed that it was  decomposed.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason?
that it consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal?
substance.
On November 22, 1921, the defendant having failed to enter an appearance,?
the $5 collateral which had been deposited by him to insure his appearance?
was declared forfeited by" the court.
C. W. PTJGSLEY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.