12778. Adulteration of canned salmon. II. S. v. 1,280 Cases of Salmon. 
Decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released under 
bond.     (F.  & D. No.  17760.    I.  S. No.  11487-v.    S.  No.  W-1413.)
On September 5, 1923, the United States attorney for the Western District 
of Washington, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed 
in the District Court of the United States for said district a libel praying the 
seizure and condemnation of 1,280 cases of salmon, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at Seattle, Wash., alleging that the article had been shipped 
by the Auk Bay Salmon Canning Co., from Auk Bay, Alaska, August 16, 1923, 
and transported from the Territory of Alaska into the State of Washington, 
and charging adulteration in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted wholly or in part of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid animal substance.
On April 9, 1924, the Auk Bay Salmon Canning Co., claimant, having ad- 
mitted the allegations of the libel, judgment of condemnation was entered, and 
it was ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant 
upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in 
the sum of $1',000, in conformity with section 10 of the act, conditioned in part 
that the product be segregated under the supervision of this department, the 
good portion to be released and the remainder disposed of in accordance with 
Jaw.
HOWARD M. GOBE, Secretary of Agriculture.