16963. Adulteration of scallops.    U. S. v. 5 Gallons, et al., of Scallops.    De 
fault decrees of condemnation, forfeiture, and destruction.     (F. & D.
Nos. 24364, 24365, 24366. I. S. Nos. 028622, 028653, 028654. S. Nos. 2544, 
2545, 2546.)
On November 22, 1929, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of New York, acting upon reports by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the 
District Court of the United States for said district libels praying seizure and 
condemnation of 20 gallons of scallops at New York, N. Y? alleging that the 
article had been shipped by the Wallace M. Quinn Co., from New Bedford,
Mass., on or about November 20, 1929, and transported from the State of Massa- 
chusetts into the State of New York, and charging adulteration in violation of 
the food and drugs act.
It was alleged in the libels that the article was adulterated in that a sub- 
stance, water, had been mixed and packed with and substituted in part for 
scallops.
On December 4, 1929, no claimant having appeared for the property, judgments 
of condemnation and forfeiture were entered, and it was ordered by the court 
that the product be destroyed by the United States marshal.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Secretary of Affriculture.