OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR. 



475 



eral, and 1,562 to the Director General of Eailroads, pursuant to an 

 agreement between the Attorney General, the Director General, and 

 this department for report to the Director General of violations 

 of the animal quarantine laws and the 28-hour law occurring after 

 the Government assumed control of the railroads. The follov.'ing 

 table shows the several statutes under which these violations were 

 reported and the amount of fines and recoveries in cases settled Avith 

 and Avithout litigation: 



Violations of sf a lutes considered. 



Law invoked. 



Fines and 

 recoveries. 



I,a\vs for the protection of National Porests 



Food and dnigs act 



2S-liour law 



Animal quarantine acts 



Meat inspection 



Lacey Act 



Bird reservation trespass law 



Misjralory bird treaty act 



Vims act 



In.^ect icide act 



Plant quarantine act 



Standard basket law 



United Slates grain standards act 



Miscellaneous 



Total 



$74,379.30 



18,160.00 



109,850.00 



27,000.00 



1,306.00 



1,917.00 



315.00 



2,230.00 



'2,' 342.05 



25.00 



2.5.60 



237,549.30 



Under authority of section -t of the food and drugs act and section 

 4 of tlie insecticide act, 375 notices of judgment were prepared for 

 publication. In addition to the criminal prosecutions above tabu- 

 lated, 667 decrees of condemnation and forfeiture were entered 

 under the food and drugs act and 5 under the insecticide act. 



Aside from the cases reported to the Department of Justice, in- 

 vestigation was made of numerous others which could not be so re- 

 poited because of the absence of proof or material facts. 



Many memoranda and briefs on legal questions Avero fiunishecl on 

 ca?:es reported to the Department of Justice for prosecution, and in 

 some assistance w^as given in taking depositions and statements of 

 witnesses and in the trials. Among the important cases in which this 

 office assisted, eitlier in the i:)reparation of briefs or in the trials, or 

 both, were United States v. Thompson, United States v. Samples and 

 DeLapp, Stale of Missouri v. Holland (United States Game War- 

 den), United States v. Selkirk, and United States v. Greene, all in- 

 volving the A-alidity of the treaty with Great Britain for the protec- 

 tion of migratory birds: United States v. Kern EiAcr Co., United 

 States V. HarA^ey and Sherman, United States v. Hooper, United 

 States V. Moore et al.. United States v. Davis, United States v. Xorth- 

 ern Pacific Eaih-oad Co., United States r. Carbon Timber Co.. United 

 States V. Safe Investment Co., United States v. Sumter Valley Rail- 

 way Co., United States v. Utah Light & Traction Co., and United 

 States V. Nay, all involving alleged rights to lands or the use of lands 

 in tlie National Forests; United States r. Albert Anderson and 24 

 similar cases involving trespas.ses on the Pi.sgah National Forest and 

 Game Preserve; United States v. Parke, Davis & Co., and two other 

 cases of the same nature, iuAolving violations of the insecticide auvl 



