Section 12
SEC. 12. If any of the gold or silver coins struck or coined at any of the mints of the United States or of the Philippine Islands shall, with fraudulent intent, he debased, or made worse as to the proportion of fine gold or line silver therein contained; or shall be of less weight or value than the same ought to be pursuant to law; or if any of the weights used at any of the mints or assay offices of the United States or of the Philippine Islands shall be defaced, increased, or diminished with a fraudulent intent by any of the officers or persons who are employed at the said mints or assay of offices, or by any other person; and if any of the said officers or persons shall embezzle any of the metals at any time committed to their charge for the purpose of being coined or any of the coins struck or coined at the said mints, or any metals, coins, or other moneys of said mints or assay offices at any time committed to their charge, or of which they may have assumed the charge, every such officer or person who commits any or either of the said offenses shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty thousand pesos, and by imprisonment for not less than one year nor more than ten years.