PROTECTION BY LAW. 



prosecution, and one-half of the penalty shall be .paid 

 to the prosecutor, unless otherwise ordered by the said 

 justice convicting. 



On May 27, 1893, the following amendment to 

 the above law was passed :* 



AN ACT to further provide against the extermina- 

 tion of the plant called ginseng. 



SEC. i. Proof of the purchase or sale of ginseng 

 between the first day of January and the first day of 

 September in any year shall be prima facie evidence of 

 a contravention of this act. 



SEC. 2. Any person who purchases ginseng, 

 knowing the same to have been cut, rooted up, or 

 gathered between the first day of January and the first 

 day of September, shall be guilty of a contravention 

 of this act. 



SEC. 3. In any prosecution under the preceding 

 section proof that the ginseng purchased has been 

 illegally obtained by the vendor shall be prima facie 

 evidence of a contravention of this act by the 

 purchaser. 



SEC. 4. This act shall be read as part of the act 

 to prevent the extermination of the plant called 

 ginseng. 



From the foregoing it will be seen that the season 

 in Virginia opens half a month later than in Ontario, 

 which is right in view of the difference of latitude. 

 On the other hand, the open season is six months long 

 in Virginia, while in Ontario it is but four months 

 long, and the digging must practically cease with the 

 fall of snow. Considering the comparative mildness 

 of the Virginia winter, a six months' close seems 

 rather short. 



A second method of securing protection consists 

 in defending the rights of individual landowners ; that 



*Statutes of the Province of Ontario, 1893, Chapter 43. 



