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SEC. 97. All statements, representations, or reports required under this Act, unless otherwise specifically provided herein shall be upon oath and in such form and upon such blanks as the Director of the Bureau of Mines, approved by the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce, may provide; and any person, making knowingly any false statement, representation or report under oath shall be subject to punishment for perjury, upon conviction therefor by a competent court.
SEC. 98. Any person who, with intent of gain, presents, or causes to be presented, any false application, declaration, or evidence to the Government or publishes, or causes to be published, any prospectus or other information containing any false statement relating to mines, mining operation, mining claims or lease, shall be guilty of perjury, if such false statement is made under oath, and shall be punished, upon conviction, in accordance with the provisions of the Revised Penal Code. If such false statement is not made under oath he shall be punished, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding six hundred pesos.
SEC. 99. Any person who willfully and maliciously defaces, alters, removes, or disturbs any stake, post, monument, boundary line, or any other mark lawfully placed under the authority of this Act, or destroys, injures or defaces any rules, or notices, which have been posted, concerning locations, mining application for leases, mines, and any other related subject shall be punished upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding five hundred pesos, besides paying compensation for the expenses incurred in replacing the defaced, altered, removed, or disturbed stakes, post, monument, boundary line, notices, or any other mark.
SEC. 100. Any person who, with intent or gain, willfully and unlawfully extracts minerals belonging to the Government or from a mining claim or mining claims leased, held or owned by other persons without the permission of the lawful lessee, holder or owner thereof, or steals ores or the products thereof from mines or mills, shall be guilty of theft, or qualified theft, as the case may be, and shall be punished, upon conviction, in accordance with the provisions of the Revised Penal Code, besides paying compensation for the damage caused thereby.
SEC. 101. Any person who, with intent of gain, knowingly sells, transfers or conveys any false mining claim or claims or any false right, title or interest in such mining claims which were not actually located on the ground and do not exist as such claims shall be guilty of estafa and shall be punished upon conviction in accordance with the provisions of the Revised Penal Code.
SEC. 102. Any person who, with intent of gain, knowingly places or deposits, or becomes accessory to the placing or depositing of, any mineral in any land for the purpose of "salting" and of misleading other persons as to the value of the mineral deposits in such land, or who with intent of gain, knowingly commingles, or causes to be commingled, samples of minerals with any other substance whatsoever, which increases the value or in any way changes the nature of the said minerals or substance, or substitutes samples of mineral for the purpose of deceiving, cheating, or defrauding any person, shall be punished, upon conviction, by imprisonment not exceeding a period of five years, besides paying compensation for the damage which may have been caused thereby.
SEC. 103. Any person who willfully and maliciously causes or permits sludge or tailings to accumulate in, or flow from his mining claims so as to cause danger, injury or obstruction to any public road, rivers or streams or other public property, shall be punished, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding two hundred pesos, besides paying compensation for any damage which may have been caused thereby.
SEC. 104. Any person who willfully and maliciously or with intent of grain, takes water from a mining mill, race, dam, reservoir, or from any other form of deposits, or prevents the water from entering said mining mill, race, dam, reservoir, or in any way interferes with the full enjoyment of water rights previously granted and lawfully held by another person, shall be punished, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding one hundred pesos.
SEC. 105. Any person who willfully and maliciously destroys or injures any structure in or on mining claims, or on sites for reduction works, shall be punished, upon conviction, by imprisonment not to exceed five years, besides paying compensation for the damage which may have been caused thereby.
SEC. 106. Any person who willfully and maliciously sets fire to any mineral, mine, or the workings, fittings, or appliances of a mine, shall be guilty of arson and shall be punished, upon conviction, in accordance with the provisions of the Revised Penal Code, besides paying compensation for the damage caused thereby.
SEC. 107. Any person who willfully and maliciously damages a mine, unlawfully causes water to run into a mine, or into any subterranean passage communicating with a mine, or obstructs any shaft or passage to a mine, or renders useless, damages, or destroys any machine, appliance, apparatus, rope, chain, tackle, or any other thing shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding a period of five days, besides paying compensation for the damage caused thereby.
SEC. 108. Any person who willfully and maliciously obstructs the Director of the Bureau of Mines, or any of his subordinates or representatives, in the performance of their duties in connection with any mine or mines shall be punished, upon conviction, by a fine not exceeding one hundred pesos.
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