17276. Miabrandingr of scallops.    U. S. v. 14 Gallon* of ScallopM.    Default 
decree   of   condemnation,  forfeiture,   and   destruction.     (F.   &  D.
No. 24847.    I. S. No. 027307.    S. No. 2904.)
On February 21, 1980, the United States attorney for the District of Massa- 
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying seizure 
and condemnation of 14 gallons of scallops, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Boston, Mass., alleging that the article had been shipped by the 
D. & H. Transportation Co., New York, N. Y., on or about February 19, 1930, 
and had been transported from the State of New York into the State of 
Massachusetts, and charging misbranding in yiolation of the food and drugs act
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated in 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 the said article.
On March 12. 1930, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment 
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal,
ABTHTJB M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture-