17492. Adulteration of oysters.     IT. S. v. Thomas E. Jones  (Thos. E. Jones
&   Co.).     Plea   of   guilty.     Fine,  S4.     (F.   &   D.   No.   25017.    I.   S.   Nos. 
022120,  022121.)
Samples of oysters from the herein-described interstate shipments having been 
iound to contain excessive water, the Secretary of Agriculture reported the 
matter to the United States attorney for the District of Maryland.
On June 6, 1930, the said United States attorney filed in the District Court 
of the United States aforesaid an information against Thomas E. Jones, trad- 
ing as Thos. E. Jones & Co., Cambridge, Md., alleging shipment by said de- 
fendant in violation of the food and drugs act in two consignments on or about 
November 14 and November 15, 1929. respectively, from the State of Mary- 
land into the State of Delaware of quantities of oysters which were adulter- 
ated. The article was labeled in part: " From Thos. E. Jones & Co. Whole- 
sale Planters, Packers and Shippers of * * * Oysters Cambridge, 
Maryland."
It was alleged in the information that the article was adulterated in that 
water had been mixed and marked therewith so as to lower and reduce and in- 
juriously affect its quality, and had been substituted in part for oysters which 
the said article purported to be.
On June 6, 1930, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $4.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Agriculture.