Section 2
SEC. 2. Any locator, lease applicant, permittee, lessee, concessionaire, assignee, owner or holder of mining claims or concessions who has in his possession documents pertaining to his mining claim or concession, shall inform the Director of Mines within two years from the of the approval of this Act, of the existence of such mining claim or concession documents he possesses. If copies of the same are found not existing in the records of the Bureau of Mines or of the mining recorder concerned, the Director of Mines shall so inform the said locator, lease applicant, permittee, lessee, concessionaire, assignee, owner, or holder, who shall, within thirty days from receipt of such information, file with the Director of Mines a petition under oath for the reconstitution of his records ,in the said offices, accompanying his petition with certified true copies of said mining documents in his possession. Failure to inform the Director of Mines of such documents and to file the petition when required within the period fixed in this Act and to prosecute the same with due diligence in accordance with the rules and regulations to be promulgated by the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources, shall open the area covered by such mining records to relocation or application by third parties in the same manner as if no location, application, permit, lease or concession had ever been made or granted covering the same area.