6410,  Adulteration of scallops.    IT. S.   *    *    *   v. 3 Boxes of Scallops.     De- 
fault decree of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D.
No. 7948.    I. S. No. 1080-m.    S. No. E^782.)
On December 22, 1916, the United States attorney for the Southern District of 
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 3 boxes of scallops, remaining unsold in the original unbroken 
packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been shipped on or 
about December 16, 1916, by the Morehead City Sea Food Co., Morehead City, 
N, C, and transported from the State of North Carolina into the State of New 
York, and charging adulteration in violation of the Foods and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in substance in the libel for the reason 
that water had been mixed and packed therewith so as to reduce, lower, and 
injuriously affect its quality and strength, and had been substituted in part for 
said article.
On January 10, 1917, 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.
CABL VROOMAN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.