5631.  Adulteration  of oysters.     TJ.   S.     *      *      *     v.  James   C.  Barry.     Plea  of 
guilty.    Fine, $30.     (F. & D. No. 7219.    I. S. Nos. 3429-1, 3459-1, 3461-1 )
On July 11, 1916, the United States attorney for the District of Columbia, 
acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the Police Court 
of said District, an information against James C. Barry, Washington, D. C, 
alleging the offering for sale and the sale by said defendant, at the District 
aforesaid, in violation of the Food and Drugs Act, on December 9, 1915, and 
December 16, 1915 (2 sales), of quantities of oysters which were adulterated.
Analyses of samples of the articles by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed the substitution of a material amount of water.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that a certain substance, to wit, 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 oysters, which the article purported to be.
On July 11, 1916, the defendant entered a plea of guilty to the information, 
and the court imposed a fine of $30.
O. F. MABVIN, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.