4621.  Adulteration   of   chestnuts.     TJ.   S.   *    *    *   v.   34   Bags   of   Chestnuts.?
Default decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.    (F. &D.
No. 6860.    I. S. No. 1926-1.    S. No. B-443.)
On October 28, 1915, the United States attorney for the Southern District ol?
New York, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the?
District Court of the United States for said district a libel for the seizure and?
condemnation of 34 bags of chestnuts, remaining unsold in the original unbroken?
packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped and?
transported from the State of Virginia into the State of New York, the ship??
ment having been received on or about October 23, 1915, and charging adultera??
tion in violation of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it?
consisted in particular [part] of a filthy, decomposed, and putrid vegetable?
substance, to wit, wormy chestnuts.
On November 16, 1915, no claimant having appeared for the property, judg??
ment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the?
court that the product should be destroyed by the United States marshal.
G. F. MABVIW, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
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