Section 3
SEC. 3. Every person having control, custody, or possession of or any part thereof, from which has been printed, or which prepared by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury of the Tinted States or by direction of the proper officer of the Philippine Islands, for the purpose of printing, any obligation or other security of the United States or of the Philippine Islands, as the case may be or from which any such obligation or other security has been printed, who uses such plate, or knowingly suffers the same to be used for the purpose of printing any such obligation or security, or similar obligation or security, or other security, or any part thereof, except as may be printed for the use of the United States or of the Philippine Islands by order of the proper officer thereof; and every person who engraves, or causes or procures to be engraved, or assist in engraving, any plate in the likeness of any plate designed for the printing of such obligations or other security, or who sells any Midi plate, or who brings into the Philippine Islands from any outside place any such plate, except under the direction of the proper office of the Philippines, or with any other intent, in either case, than that such plate be used for the printing of the obligation or other securities of the Philippine Islands; or who has in his control, custody, or possession any metallic plate engraved after the similitude of any plate from which any such obligation, or other security has been printed, with intent to use such plate or suffer the same to be used in forging or counterfieting any such obligation or other security, or other part thereof; or who has in his possession or custody except under authority from the proper officer Philippine Islands, any obligation or other security, engraved and printed after the similitude of any obligation or other security issued under the authority of the United States or of the Philippines Islands, with intent to sell or otherwise use the same; and every person who prints, photographs, or in any other manner makes or executes, or cause to be printed, photographed, made or executed, or aids in printing, photographing, making or executing any engraving, photograph, print or impression in the likeness of any such obligation or other security, or any part thereof, or who sells any such engraving, photograph, print or impression, except to the United States or the Philippine Islands, or who brings into the Philippine Islands from any outside place any such engraving, photograph, print, or impression, except by direction of some proper officer of the Philippine Islands, or who has retains in his control or possession, after a distinctive paper has been adopted by the proper officer of the Philippine Islands for the obligations and other securities of the Philippine Islands, any similar paper adapted to the making of any such obligation or other security, except under the authority of the proper officer of the Philippine Islands, shall be punished by a line of not more than ten thousand pesos, or by imprisonment for not more than fifteen years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.