OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR. 



695 



The following table shows the several statutes under which these 

 violations were reported and the amounts of fines and recoveries in 

 cases settled with and without contests: 



Cases reported, fines imposed, and judgment s recovered. 



Law involved. 



Number 

 of cases. 



National forest laws 



Food and drugs act , 



2S-hour law 



Animal quarantine acts 



Meat inspection act 



L/aeey Act 



Migratory bird treaty act 



Game law violations in national forests 



Pisgah game preserve 



Insecticide act , 



Plant quarantine act 



United States grain standards act . 



Miscellaneous 



Total 



161 



919 



.W5 



80 



36 



5 



492 



61 



5 



51 



63 



2.478 



Fines and 

 recoveries. 



$30, 232. 66 



18,237.00 



171,300.00 



13,396.00 



1,289.50 



225.00 



7, 084. 01 



1,823.40 



100.00 



2,322.00 



1,361.00 



400.00 



125.00 



247, 895. 57 



Many cases involving alleged violations of the regulatory laws 

 were given consideration that were not reported to the Department 

 of Justice, owing to the absence of sufficient evidence on which to 

 base prosecution. 



Contracts and leases were prepared or examined as follows : 



Contracts and leases prepared or examined. 



Bureau, di\-ision, or ofBce. 



Total. 



Forest Service 



Bureau of Animal Industry 



Biological Survey 



Bureau of Chemistry 



Chief Clerk 



Bureau of Entomology 



Bureau of Agricultural Economics 



Federal Horticultural Board 



Insecticide and Fungicide Board 



Mechanical shops 



Packers and Stockyards Administration . . 



Bureau of Plant Industry 



Bureau of Public Roads '. 



Division of Publications 



Weather Bureau 



Grain Futures Trading Administration... 



Solicitor's Office 



Division of Aecoimts and Disbvusements . 

 Fi.xed Nitrogen Research Laboratorv..-. . 



Total. 



1,332 



During the year 537 bonds, 345 renewals, and 35 terminations of 

 leases and contracts were prepared. In addition to the examination 

 of the above-tabulated contracts for sufficiency as to execution, there 

 were also examined 1,520 road-project contracts and 719 modifica- 

 tions or cancellations 'of road-project contracts for the same purpose. 



Nineteen claims of balances due estates of deceased employees 

 were examined and the necessary papers prepared for their payment 

 and advice furnished administrative officers relative to the same. 



In the collection of seed loans made by the department under the 

 acts of Congress of 1921 and 1922 one of the assistants in the office 



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