14065. Adulteration    of    chestnuts.      IT.    S.    v.    143    Bags    of    Shelled    Chest 
nuts.     Consent  decree  of  condemnation  and  forfeiture.     Product 
released  under   bond.     (F.   &  D.   No.   20553.    I.   S.   No.   8076-x.     S.  No.
E-5537.)
On November 5, 1925. 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 praying the seizure 
and condemnation of 143 bags of shelled chestnuts, remaining in the original 
unbroken packages at New York, N. Y., alleging that the article had been 
shipped by Elado Perez, from Coruna, Spain, January 3, 1925, and transported 
from a foreign country into the State of New York, and chax'ging adulteration 
in violation of the food and drugs act.
Adulteration of the article was alleged in the libel for the reason that it 
consisted in whole or in part of a filthy, putrid, or decomposed vegetable sub- 
stance.
On January 23, 1926, Unanue & Lopez, New York, N. Y., claimant, having 
admitted the allegations of the libel and having consented to the entry of a 
decree, judgment of condemnation and forfeiture was entered, and it was 
ordered by the court that the product be released to the said claimant upon 
payment of the costs of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum 
of $1,200, in conformity with section 10 of the act. conditioned in part that it 
be sorted so as to separate the good nuts from the bad and that the bad portion 
be denatured or destroyed.
R. W. DUNLAP, Acting Secretary of Agriculture.