416 ANNUAL EEPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGEICULTUEE. 



Fines aggregating $758.25 were imposed in 87 cases, as follows: 

 Fines imposed in meat-inspection cases. 



1 These cases were consolidated against one defendant and one fine imposed. 



At the close of the fiscal year 1918, 49 cases were pending. 



TWENTY-EIGHT HOUR LAW. 



[34 Stat., 607.] • 



One thousand one hundred and sixty-eight cases were reported to 

 the Attorney General for prosecution. 



At the close of the fiscal year 1917 2.518 cases were pending. 



Of the cases reported during the fiscaj year 1917, 595, and of the 

 cases reported during the fiscal year 1918, 7, in all 602 cases, were 

 terminated by the imposition of fines. Two hundred and forty-nine 

 cases were terminated by dismissal, and 4 were decided adversely to 

 the United States. 



June 30, 1918, 2,831 cases were pending. 



During the year penalties aggregating $64,925 were collected in 602 

 cases. 



Following is a detailed table of the number of cases prosecuted 

 and the amounts of penalties assessed : 



Cases prosecuted and fines imposed under the tu:enty-eight hour law. 



Lump fine. 

 TWENTY-EIGHT HOUR LAW COURT DECISIONS. 



Among the cases of interest decided during the year were Phila- 

 delphia & Reading Railway Co. v. United States (247 Fed.. 466), 

 United States v. Philadelphia & Reading Raihcay Co. (247 Fed., 

 469), and Grand Trunk Western Railway Co. v. United States (248 

 Fed., 905). 



