13501. Adulteration of canned salmon. TJ. S. v. 8,892 Cases of Salmon. 
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product re- 
leased nnder bond. (F. & D. Nos. 18939, 18943, 18986, 19039, 19047, 
19147. I. S. Nos. 20218-v, 20220-v, 20290-v, 20293-v, 21058-v, 21071-v. 
S. Nos. W-1570, W-1574, W-15S6, W-1593, W-1603.)
On January 17, 1925, 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 8,892 cases of salmon, remaining in the original unbroken 
packages at Anacortes, Wash., consigned by J. L. Smiley & Co., from Ketchikan, 
Alaska, alleging that the article had been shipped from Alaska, arriving at 
Anacortes at different times during the months of August, September, and 
October, 1924, and had been 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 sub- 
stance.
During the month of January, 1925, J. L. Smiley & Co., Ketchikan, Alaska, 
claimant, having admitted that a portion of the product was adulterated and 
having consented to the entry of a decree, judgment of condemnation and for- 
feiture was entered, and it was ordered by the court that the product be re- 
leased to the said claimant upon payment of the costs of the proceedings and
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the execution of a bond in the sum of $17,000, in conformity with section 10 of 
the act, conditioned in part that the unadulterated portion be separated from 
the adulterated portion under the supervision of this department, and the 
former released and the latter destroyed.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.