SEC. 89. A bona fide holder of a mining claim or group of contiguous claims under this Act, shall have the gratuitous right to cut trees or timber within such mining claim or claims for use in the development or operation of only the said claim or claims: Provided, That the cutting of said timber shall be in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Bureau of Forestry: And provided, further, That the land or lands covered by such mining claim or group of claims are not covered by any existing timber concession granted by the Bureau of Forestry.
SEC. 90. Bona fide holders of a mining claim or group of contiguous claims under this Act shall also be allowed a gratuitous water right or rights for the development and operation of such claim or claims upon filing an application therefor with the Director of the Bureau of Public Works in accordance with the existing law of waters and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder: Provided, That water rights already granted or vested through long use, recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws and decisions of courts, shall not thereby be impaired: Provided, further, That the Government reserves the right to regulate water rights and the reasonable and equitable distribution of water supply so as to prevent the monopoly of the use thereof.
SEC. 91. When any mine, or mining claim is so situated that for the more convenient enjoyment of the beneficial rights on the same, a road, a railroad, tramway, electric transmission, telephone or telegraph line, or aerial transportation thereto or therefrom, or a ditch, canal, pipe line, flume, cut, shaft, or tunnel to drain or convey water, ore, waste or tailings therefrom, or a shaft or tunnel for mining purposes, may be necessary for the better working thereof, which road, railroad, tramway, electric transmission, telephone or telegraph line, aerial transportation, ditch, canal, pipe line, flume, cut, shaft or tunnel may require the use or occupancy of a mining claim or claims or other lands owned, occupied, possessed or leased by another or other than the person or persons or body corporate requiring an easement for any of the purposes hereinbefore enumerated, which purpose are hereby declared to be for the public use or benefit for which the right of eminent domain may legally be exercised, the owner, locator, or lessee of the mine or mining claim first above mentioned, shall be entitled to a right of way, entry and possession for the uses, purposes and privileges of such roads, railroads, tramway, electric transmission, telephone or telegraph line, aerial transportation, ditch, canal, pipe line, flume, cut, shaft or tunnel, in, upon, through, under and across mining claims or other lands, upon compliance with the provisions of this Act hereinafter provided.
SEC. 92. When the owner or occupant of any mine or mining claim desires to work the same, and it is necessary, in order to enable him to do so successfully and conveniently, that he have a right of way for any of the purposes mentioned in the foregoing sections, if such right of way cannot be acquired by agreement with the owner, occupant, or claimant of mining claims or other lands, over, under, through, across, or upon which he seeks to acquire such right of way the applicant may commence and maintain an action in the manner provided in sections two hundred and forty-one to two hundred and fifty-three, inclusive, of Act Numbered One hundred and ninety, and in the Acts amendatory and supplementary to the said sections, now or hereafter in effect, including Act Numbered Twenty-two hundred and forty-nine providing for the exercise of the power of eminent domain by the Government and its subdivisions. At least one of the commissioners to be named in accordance with section two hundred and forty-three of the Code of Civil Procedure shall, in any case brought hereunder, be a mining engineer, duly qualified as such under the laws of the Government of the Philippines, and such mining engineer or engineers need not be land holders or owners of the province where the land is situated.
SEC. 93. No person under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in, or about any mine in work connected with mining operation, and no male person or persons under the age of eighteen years, nor any girl or woman, shall be employed underground in any mine.
Section94. No person shall have the general direction of the work in, or act as superintendent of, a mine, mill or quarry, employing more than fifty persons, working underground at any one time without being duly licensed as a mining engineer or as an experienced mining or mill foreman certified as such by the Board of Examiners for Mining Engineers, unless expressly permitted to do so by the Director of the Bureau of Mines.
SEC. 95. The Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce shall be the executive officer charged with carrying out the provisions of this Act, through the Director of the Bureau of Mines, who shall act under his immediate control.
SEC. 96. The appraisal or reappraisal, valuation or revaluation of any mine, mining claim or claims with or without improvements thereon, patented, leased or otherwise, for the purpose of raising capital for the formation, or organization of association, partnership or corporation or for promotion work, or for issuing shares of stock, or for determining the present net value of the mines, shall be made by the Director of the Bureau of Mines or his duly authorized representative, and no such mine, mining claim or claims, with or without improvement thereon, patented, leased or otherwise, shall be accepted as asset or basis of any asset in any formation or organization of association, partnership, or corporation for registration or incorporation without the value thereof having been first appraised or determined by the Director of the Bureau of Mines as herein provided.
Source: Supreme Court E-Library, Republic of the Philippines. Philippine laws are public documents (works of the government).
