Section 1
SECTION 1. The exportation from the Philippine Islands of Philippine silver coins, coined by authority of the Act of Congress approved March second, nineteen hundred and three, or of bullion made by melting or otherwise mutilating such coins, is hereby prohibited, and any of the aforementioned silver coins or bullion which is exported, or of which the exportation is attempted subsequent to the passage of this Act, and contrary to its provisions, shall be liable to forfeiture under due process of law, and one-third of the sum or value of bullion so forfeited shall be payable to the person upon whose information, given to the proper authorities, the seizure of the money or bullion so forfeited is made, and the other two-thirds shall be payable to the Philippine Government, .Hid accrue to the gold-standard fund: Provided, That the prohibition heroin contained shall not apply to sums of twenty-five pesos or less carried by passengers leaving the Philippine Islands.