OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR. 



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statute providing for the sale of lands containing deposits of po- 

 tassium applies to the national forests. 



Hearings were conducted at Kansas City, Mo., to develop the facts 

 in regard to certain charges preferred against three serum companies 

 for violation of the regulations governing the preparation, ship- 

 ment, and importation of viruses, serums, .toxins, and analogous 

 products intended for use in the treatment of domestic animals. 



Violations of statutes intrusted to the department for enforcement, 

 upon which reports were made and prosecutions recommended to the 

 Attorney General, or upon which settlements were effected without 

 litigation, and the amount of fines and recoveries in cases terminated 

 and reported to this office during the year, were as f oUow^s : 



Violations of statutes considered. 



Law invoked. 



Laws for the protection of national forests 



Food and drugs act 



T wentv-cight hour law 



Animal quarantine act 



Meat inspection 



Lacey Act 



Bird reservation trespass law 



Virus act 



Insecticide act.. 



Plant quarantine act 



Miscellaneous 



Total 



Fines and 

 recoveries. 



S71,404.54 



19,407.00 



64,925.00 



12, 750. 00 



758. 25 



2,873.00 



45.00 



2,446.00 



95.00 



300.00 



175,003.79 



Under authority of section 4 of the food and drugs act, and section 

 4 of the insecticide act, 1,371 Notices of Judgment were prepared for 

 publication. In addition, 325 decrees of condemnation and for- 

 feiture were entered under the food and drugs act and 4 under the 

 insecticide act. 



Investigation was made in numerous other cases which were not 

 reported to the Department of Justice for action because of the ab- 

 sence of proof of material facts or on account of other infirmities. 

 Evidence submitted to the office by various bureaus of the depart- 

 ment which disclosed apparent violations of the postal laws and regu- 

 lations w^as referred to the Postmaster General for action. 



Many memoranda on legal questions were furnished on cases re- 

 ported to the Department of Justice for prosecution, and in some 

 assistance was given in taking depositions and statements of witnesses, 

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

 assisted, either in the preparation of briefs or in the trials, or both, 

 were United States v. Cleveland Macaroni Co.^ United States v. Safe 

 Investment Co. and Frank Steiskel (on appeal) ; United States v. Mt. 

 Valley Water Co.^ United States v. Bethesda Mineral Springs Go.^ 

 United States v. 200 cases of Tomato Catsujy^ United States v. Hcdl 

 Texas Wcynder, United States v. /{ar-ra Chemical Co., Balph H. 

 Cameron., et al.^ v. United States (on appeal), United States v. Elk 

 Mountain Mercantile Co.., United States v. Carhon Timber Co.., 

 United States v. Hartford & Eastern Railway Co.^ United States v. 



