Section 8
SEC. 8. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this Act, or of any rule or regulation made and issued by the Collector of Customs for the Philippine Islands, under and by authority of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. United States currency, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court: Provided, That violations of law may be punished either by the method prescribed in section seven hereof, or by that prescribed in this section, or by both.