5581. Adulteration of beans. U. S. * * * v. 1,000 Sacks * * * of 
"White Beans. Consent decree of. condemnation and f orf eitnre. 
Product ordered released on bond.     (F. & D. No. 329-c.)
On March 28, 1917, the United States attorney for the District of Nebraska, 
acting upon a report by the State Pure Food Commissioner of Nebraska, au- 
thorized 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 
1,000 sacks of white beans, alleging that the article had been shipped between 
the dates of June 19, 1916, and January 6, 1917, by Post Bros., from West 
Hammond, Ill., and Edmore, Mich., and transported from the States of Illinois 
and Michigan into the State of Nebraska, and charging adulteration in viola- 
tion of the Food and Drugs Act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in part of a filthy and decomposed vegetable substance.
On April 27, 1917, the First National Bank of Hammond, Ind., claimant, 
having filed an appearance and made application for the release of the product, 
judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was ordered by the 
court that the product should be released to 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.
C. F. MARVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.