14053. Adulteration   of   scallops.     V.   S.   v.   William   T.   Lawson.    Plea   of
guilty.    Fine, $40.     (F. & D. No. 19660.    I. S. No. 17417-v.)
On September 24, 1925, the United States attorney for the Eastern Dis- 
trict of Virginia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district an information 
against William T. Lawson, trading as W. T. Lawson, at Quinby, Va., alleging 
shipment by said defendant, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about 
March 7, 1925, from the State of Virginia into the District of Columbia, of a 
quantity of scallops which were adulterated.
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 reduce and lower and injuriously affect its quality and strength and had 
been substituted in part for scallops. Adulteration was alleged for the fur- 
ther reason that a valuable constituent of the article, to wit, scallop solids, 
had been in part abstracted therefrom.
On November 13, 1925, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the in- 
formation, and the court imposed a fine of $40.
R. W. DTJNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.