15477. Adulteration of* cashew nuts. V. S. v. 5 Boxes of Cashew Nuts. 
Consent decree of condemnation and forfeiture. Product released 
under bond.     (F. & D. No. 22285.     1. S. No. 21671-x.     S. No. 336.)
On December I'd, 1927, 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 seizure 
and condemnation of 5 boxes of cashew nuts, remaining in the original un- 
broken packages at New York, N. Y., consigned by Shanker Balkrishna Tomey, 
Bombay, India, alleging that the article had been imported from Bombay. India, 
into the State of New York, on or about April 8, 1927, and charging adulteration 
in violation of the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libel that the article was adulterated, in that it con- 
sisted in whole or in part of a filthy, decomposed, or putrid vegetable substance, 
to wit, wormy nuts.
On December 21, 1927, Charles Jacobs and Henry de Jons>h, copartners, trad- 
ing as Charles Jacobs & Co., New York, N. Y., claimants, having admitted the 
allegations of the libel and having consented to tlie 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 claimants upon payment of the costs 
of the proceedings and the execution of a bond in the sum of $500, conditioned 
in part that the good nuts be separated from the bad nuts, and the rejections 
destroyed or denatured.
"W. M. JARDINE, Secretary of Ag-riciUture.