OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR. 



475 



crul, and 1,5G2 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 following- 

 table shows the several statutes under which these violations were 

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

 and without litigation: 



Violations of shi fides considered. 



Law invokod. 



T.aws for the protection of National Forests 



Food and drugs act 



28-hou r law 



Animal quarantine acts 



Meat inspection 



Lacpy Act 



I5ird reservation trespass law 



Migratory bird treaty act 



\' inis act 



Tiisocticide act 



I'i ii>t quarantine act 



Standard basket law 



United States grain standards act 



Miscellnneoiis 



Total 



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

 4 of the insecticide act, 375 notices of judgment were prepared t'oi* 

 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- 

 i:)orted because of the absence of proof or material facts. 



Many memoranda and briefs on legal questions were furnished on 

 ca-cs reported 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, Avere United States v. Tlwmpson, United States t\ Samples and 

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

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

 volving the validity of the treaty with Great Britain for the protec- 

 tion of migratory birds; United States v. Kern Eiver Co., United 

 States V. Harvey and Sherman, United States v. Iloopei", United 

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

 ern Pacific Eailroad Co., United States y. Carbon Timber Co., United 

 States V. Safe Investment Co., United States i\ Smnter Yalley Eail- 

 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 the National Forests; United States v. Albert Anderson and 24 

 siniilar cases involving trespasses on the Pisgah National Forest and 

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

 cases of the same nature, involvino; violations of the insecticide anvl 



