15272. Adulteration of oysters.    XJ. S. v. Carol Dryden and Nelson R. Coul 
bourn (Carol Dryden <fc Co.).    Plea of guilty.    Fine, $25 and costs.
(F: & 1). No. 21605.    I. S. No. 13441-x.)
On June 6, 1927, the United States attorney for the District of Maryland, act- 
ing upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the District Court of 
the United States for said district an information against Carol Dryden 
and Nelson R. Coulbourn, co-partners, trading as Carol Dryden & Co., Cris-
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field, Md., alleging shipment by said defendants, in violation; of the food and 
drugs act, on or about Feb. 16,' 1927, from the State of Maryland into the State 
of New Jersey, of a quantity of oysters which were adulterated.
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated, in that a 
substance, to wit, water, had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, 
lower, and injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted 
in part for oysters, which the said article purported solely to be, and in that 
valuable constituents, oyster solids, had been, in part, abstracted from the said 
article.
On June 21, 1927, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendants, and the court imposed a fine of $25 and costs.
W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Agriculture.