12226. Adulteration of Brazil nuts.     V. S. v. 123 Bag* of Brazil Nuts.     Con 
sent   deeree   of   condemnation   and   forfeiture.     Product   released 
under bond.     (F. & D. No. 1798-1.    I. S. No. 15804-y.     g. No. E-4567.)
On November 7. 1923, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in 
the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the 
seizure and condemnation of 123 bags of Brazil nuts, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by Wilson Holgate & Co., from Mansos, Brazil, on or about March 
27, 1923, and transported from a foreign country into the State of New York, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the articles was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable 
substance.
On March 13, 1924, the Hills Bros. Co., New York, N. Y., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and consented to the entry of a decree, 
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered 
by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon pay- 
ment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum 
of $1,500, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part that 
it be sorted in a manner satisfactory to this department and the bad portion 
destroyed, and conditioned further that if such sorting be not accomplished 
to the satisfaction of this department the entire lot be denatured or destroyed.
HOWARD M. GOBE, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.