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Notices of judgment in the terminated cases have been prepared 

 by this office promptly on receipt of the necessary records from the 

 United States attorneys. Four hundred and forty-two of such notices 

 were pubUshed during the year and over 200 more were in course 

 of publication at the close of the year. Notices of judgment have been 

 issued in the cases decided adversely as well as favorably to the 

 Government. Advance copies of these notices have been forwarded 

 to the officials of the several States authorized to cooperate with the 

 department in the enforcement of the law. These notices serve a 

 double purpose. They are an important factor in deterring the par- 

 ties interested in particular notices from further violations of the 

 law, and thej inform the officials engaged in the administration of 

 the food and drug laws as well as manufacturers and producers of 

 foods and drugs generally of the interpretation placed by the depart- 

 ment and by the courts on the provisions of the law defining adultera- 

 tion and misbranding. 



The office reported 598 instances of apparent violations of the 

 twenty-eight hour law (act of June 29, 1906; 34 Stat., 607) in the 

 fiscal year 1911, as compared with 438 cases similarly reported in 1910. 

 Penalties aggregating $26,075 were recovered and costs in the sum 

 of $5,783.85 were paid in 1911; in 1910 penalties in the sum of 

 $16,500 and costs m the sum of $2,919.35 were assessed. Three 

 hundred and fifty cases were disposed of in 1911, as compared with 

 187 cases disposed of in 1910. In 1911, 30 cases out of 284 resulted 

 adversely to the United States ; in 1910, 19 cases out of 158 terminated 

 in favor of the defendants. Five hundred and fifty-nine cases were 

 pending under this statute at the close of June 30, 1910, and 807 cases 

 were pending at the close of June 30, 1911. 



One hundred apparent violations of the live-stock quarantine acts 

 were reported to the Attorney General during 1911, as compared with 

 148 cases during 1910. Of these, 90 were apparent violations of the 

 act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat., 1264), and 10 were alleged violations 

 of the act of May 29, 1884 (23 Stat., 31). In all, penalties amounting 

 to $5,580 were imposed in the 51 violations of these statutes disposed 

 of during 1911, as compared with fines amounting to $2,970 in the 24 

 cases disposed of under the same statutes during 1910. 



One hundred and one violations of the meat-inspection amendment 

 (act of June 30, 1906; 34 Stat., 674) were reported to the Attorney 

 General in 1911, as compared with 52 similar cases reported in 1910. 

 Forty-three cases terminated in favor of the United States in 1911, 

 fines or sentences of imprisonment being imposed; fines were assessed 

 in the sum of $3,240 ; 18 cases terminated in favor of the United States 

 in 1910, and fines were assessed in the aggregate of $2,397. In 1911, 

 in 1 case there was a verdict for the defendant, 8 cases were dismissed, 

 in 4 cases no true bills were found, and in 3 cases sentence was sus- 

 pended; there were 74 cases pending under this statute at the close 

 of June 30, 1911. In 1910, no cases were lost, 8 were dismissed for 

 lack of evidence, and 26 were pending at the close of June 30, 1910. 



The appropriation for the enforcement of the insecticide act of 1910 

 (act of April 26, 1910; 36 Stat., 331) became available March 4, 191 1, 

 (36 Stat., 1264). Several opinions have been rendered by the Solicitor 

 on the construction of important sections of the statute, guaranties 

 filed under section 9 are being examined, and the necessary legal work 

 preliminary to the preparation of cases under the act is being per- 

 formed. 



