Section 98
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.