3230.?Adulteration of walnuts.     IT. S. v. 25 Bags of Walnuts.     Default de?
cree   of   condemnation,  forfeiture,   and   destruction.      (F.  &  D.  No.
5460.     S. No. 2031.)
On December 1, 1913, the United States Attorney for the District of Massa??
chusetts, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed In the Dis??
trict Court of the United States for said district a Ubel for the seizure and?
condemnation of 25 bags, each containing nuts, remaining unsold in the origi??
nal unbroken package's at Boston, Mass., alleging that the product'had been?
transported from the State of New York into the State of Massachusetts, and?
charging adulteration in violation of the Food and Drugs Act. Adulteration?
of the product was alleged in the libel for the reason that it consiste'd, in part,?
of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable substance.
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BUREAU  OF  CHEMISTRY.	
[May, 1914.
On January 17, 1914, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgment?
of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court?
that the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
B. T. GALLOWAY, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON, D. C, June 8, 1914-