punished by a fine of not more than two thousand pesos and by imprisonment for not more than five years.

SEC. 15. Every person who, within the Philippine Islands, with intent to defraud, falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits any bond, certificate, obligation, or other security in imitation of, or purporting to be an imitation of, any bond, certificate, obligation, or other security of any foreign Government, issued or put forth under the authority of such foreign Government, or any treasury note, bill, or promise to pay issued by such foreign Government, and intended to circulate as money, either by law, order, or decree of such foreign Government, and any person who causes or procures to be so falsely made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, or who knowingly aids or assists in making, altering, forging, or counterfeiting any such bond, certificate, obligation, or other security, or any such treasury note, bill, or promise to pay, intended as aforesaid to circulate as money, shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand pesos and by imprisonment for not more than five years.

SEC. 16. Every person who knowingly, and with intent to defraud, utters, passes, or puts off, in payment or negotiation, within the Philippine Islands, any such false, forged, or counterfeit bond, certificate, obligation, security, treasury note, bill, or promise to pay, as mentioned in the preceding section of this Act, whether the same was made, altered, forged, or counterfeited within the Philippine Islands or not, shall be punished by a fine of not more than six thousand pesos and by imprisonment for not more than three years.

SEC. 17. Every person who, within the Philippine Islands, shall, with intent to defraud, falsely make, alter, forge, or counterfeit, or shall cause or procure to be so made, altered, forged, or counterfeited, or shall knowingly aid and assist in the false making, altering, forging, or counterfeiting, of any bank note or bill issued by a bank or other corporation authorized by the laws of any foreign country, which note or bill is intended to circulate as money by the law or usage of such foreign country, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding four thousand pesos and by imprisonment for not more than two years.

SEC. 18. Every person who shall, within the Philippine Islands, utter, pass, put off, or tender in payment the false, forged, altered, or counterfeited bank note or bill mentioned in the preceding section, knowing the same to be false, forged, altered, or counterfeited, whether the same was made, altered, forged, or counterfeited within the Philippine Islands or not, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two thousand pesos and by imprisonment for not more than one year.

SEC. 19. Every person who, within the Philippine Islands, shall have in his possession any such false, forged, or counterfeit bond, certificate, obligation, security, treasury note, bill, promise to pay, bank note, or bill issued by a bank or other corporation of any foreign country, knowing the same to be false, forged, or counterfeited, with intent to utter, pass, or put off the same, or to deliver the same to any other person with intent that the same may thereafter be uttered, passed, or put off as true, or who shall knowingly deliver the same to any other person with such intent, shall be punished by a fine of not

more than two thousand pesos and by imprisonment for not more than one year.

SEC. 20. Every person who, within the Philippine Islands, having control, custody, or possession of any plate, or any part thereof, from which has been printed or may be printed, any counterfeited note, bond, obligation, security, in whole or in part, of any foreign Government, bank, or corporation, except by lawful authority, or who uses such plate, or knowingly permits or suffers the same to be used, in counterfeiting such foreign obligation, or any part thereof, and every person who engraves, or causes or procures to be engraved, or assists in engraving, any plate in the likeness or similitude of any plate designed for the printing of the genuine issues of the obligations of any foreign Government, bank, or corporation, and every person who prints, photographs, or in any other manner makes, executes, or sells, or causes to be printed, photographed, made, executed, or sold or aids in printing, photographing, making, executing, or selling, any engraving, photograph, print, or impression, in the likeness of any genuine note, bond, obligation, or other security, or any part thereof, of any foreign Government, bank, or corporation, or who brings into the Philippine Islands any counterfeit plate, engraving, photograph, print, or other impressions of the notes, bonds, obligations, or other securities of any foreign Government, bank, or corporation, shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand pesos, or by impris onment for not more than five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 21. If any person, intending to devise or having devised any scheme or artifice to defraud, or to sell, dispose of, loan, exchange, alter, give away, or distribute, supply, or furnish, or procure for unlawful use any counterfeit or spurious coin, bank notes, paper money, or any obligation or security of the United States, of the Philippine Islands, or of any State, Territory, municipality, company, corporation, or person, or anything represented to be or intimated or held out to be such counterfeit or spurious articles, or any scheme or artifice to obtain money by or through correspondence, by what is commonly called the "sawdust swindle," or "counterfeit money fraud," or by dealing or pretending to deal in what is commonly called "green articles," "green coin," "bill," "paper goods," "spurious Treasury notes," "United States goods," "green cigars, or any other names or terms intended to be understood as relating to such counterfeit or spurious articles, to be effected by either opening or intending to open correspondence or communication with any person, whether resident within or outside the Philippine Islands, by means of the Post-Office Establishment of the Philippine Islands, or by inciting such other person or any person to open communication with the person so intending to devise or devising, shall, in and for executing such scheme or artifice or attempting so to do, place or cause to be placed, any letter, packet, writing, circular, pamphlet, or advertisement in any post-office, branch post-office, or street or hotel letter box of the Philippine Islands, or shall take or receive any such therefrom, such person so misusing the Post-Office Establishment shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand pesos, or by imprisonment for not more than eighteen months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. The indictment, information, or complaint may severally charge offenses to the

number of three when committed within the same six calendar months; but the court thereupon shall give a single sentence, and shall, in fixing the punishment, take into special consideration the degree to which the Post-Office Establishment has been used as an instrument in such fraudulent scheme and device.

SEC. 22. Every person who, within the Philippine Islands, makes any die, hub, or mold, either of steel or plaster, or any other substance whatsoever in likeness or similitude of the design or the inscription on any die, hub, or mold designated for the coining or making of any of the genuine gold, silver, nickel, bronze, copper, or other coins of the United States or of the Philippine Islands that have been or hereafter may be coined at the mints of the United States, or of the Philippine Islands, or who willingly aids or assists in the making of any such die, hub, or mold, or any part thereof, or who causes or procures to be made any such die, hub, or mold, or any part thereof without authority from the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States or other proper officer of the United States or of the Philippine Islands, as the case may be, or who shall have in his possession any such die, hub, or mold, with intent to fraudulently or unlawfully use the same, or who shall permit the same to be used for or in aid of the counterfeiting of any of the coins of the United States or of the Philippine Islands, hereinbefore mentioned, shall be punished by a fine of not more than ten thousand pesos, or by imprisonment for not more than ten years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 23. Every person who, within the Philippine Islands, without lawful authority, makes, or willingly aids or assists in making, or causes or procures to be made, any die, hub, or mold, either of steel or of plaster, or of any other substance whatsoever, in the likeness or similitude of the design or the inscription on any die, hub, or mold designated for the coining of the genuine coins of any foreign Government, or who conceals or shall have in possession any such die, hub, or mold hereinbefore mentioned, with intent to fraudulently or unlawfully use the same for counterfeiting any foreign coin, or who knowingly suffers the same to be fraudulently used for the counterfeiting of any foreign coin shall be punished by a fine of not more than four thousand pesos, or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 24. Every person who makes, or who causes or procures to be made, or who brings into the Philippine Islands from any foreign country, or who shall have in his possession with intent to sell, give away, or in any other manner use the same, any business or professional card, notice, placard, token, device, print, or impression, or any other thing whatsoever, in likeness or similitude of the design on any of the coins of the United States, or of the Philippine Islands, or of any foreign country that have been or hereafter may be issued as money, either under the authority of the United States, of the Philippine Islands, or under the authority of any foreign Government, shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed two hundred pesos. But nothing in sections twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, or twenty-six of this Act shall be construed to forbid or prevent the printing and publishing of illustrations of coins and medals, or the making of the necessary plates for the

same, to be used in illustrating numismatic and historical books and journals and the circulars of legitimate publishers and dealers in the same.

SEC. 25. All counterfeits of any of the obligations or other securities of the United States, of the Philippine Islands, or of any foreign Government, or counterfeits of any of the coins of the United States, of the Philippine Islands, or of any foreign Government, and all material or apparatus fitted or intended to be used, or that shall have been used, in the making of any such counterfeit obligations or other securities or coins hereinbefore mentioned, that shall be found in the possession of any person without authority to have the same from the Secretary of the Treasury or other proper officer of the United States or of the Philippine Islands, as the case may be, shall be taken possession of by any peace officer, internal-revenue officer, or customs officer and shall be forthwith delivered to the Insular Treasury or to the duly authorized agent thereof, and shall be forfeited and disposed of in any manner the Governor-General may direct.

SEC. 26. The judges of Courts of First Instance or of the Supreme Court of the Philippine Islands may, upon proper oath or affirmation, within their respective jurisdictions, issue a search warrant authorizing any peace officer of the Philippine Islands, or any other person specially mentioned in such warrant, to enter any house, store, building, boat, or other place named in such warrant, in the daytime only, in which there shall appear probable cause for believing that there is carried on or practiced the manufacture of counterfeit money, or the concealment of false, forged, or counterfeit money, or the manufacture or concealment of false, forged, or counterfeit obligations or coins of the United States, of the Philippine Islands, or of any foreign Government, or the manufacture or concealment of dies, hubs, molds, plates, or other things fitted or intended to be used for the manufacture of counterfeit money, coins, or obligations of the United States, of the Philippine Islands, or of any foreign Government, or of any bank doing business under the authority of the United States or of any State or Territory thereof, or of the Philippine Islands, or of any bank doing business under the authority of any foreign Government or of any political division of any foreign Government, and there search for such false, forged, or counterfeit money, or false, forged, or counterfeit obligations, coins, dies, hubs, molds, plates, and other things, and, if any such be found, to seize and secure the same and to make return thereof to the proper authority; and all such false, forged, or counterfeit money, obligations, coins, dies, hubs, molds, plates, and other things of like character so seized shall be duly forfeited.

SEC. 27. Articles two hundred and eighty to two hundred and ninety-two, both inclusive, of the Penal Code of the Philippine Islands are hereby repealed.

SEC. 28. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with section two of "An Act prescribing the order of procedure by the Commission in the enactment of laws," passed September twentysixth, nineteen hundred.

SEC. 29. This Act shall take effect on its passage.

Enacted, October 9, 1907.

[No. 1755.]

AN ACT To prohibit the disturbance of the Philippine Commission, the Philippine Assembly, or of any provincial board or municipal or township council; to punish disorderly conduct in the immediate view or presence of said bodies; to punish the fraudulent altering of the draft of any bill, resolution, ordinance, or act pending before or enacted by any such body or the Philippine Legislature; to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of evidence before the Philippine Commission or Philippine Assembly, or before any committee of either or both said bodies, and for other purposes.

By authority of the United States, be it enacted by the Philippine Commission, that:

SECTION 1. Any person who willfully or by force or fraud prevents or attempts to prevent the meeting of the Philippine Commission or the organizing or meeting of the Philippine Assembly or of any Insular legislative body of the Philippine Islands hereafter established, or the meeting or organizing of any provincial board or municipal or township council, and any person who willfully disturbs the Philippine Commission or the Philippine Assembly, or any Insular legislative body of the Philippine Islands hereafter established, or any provincial board or municipal or township council, while in session, or who is guilty of any disorderly conduct in the immediate view or presence of any such body tending to interrupt the proceedings of such body or to impair the respect due to its authority, shall be punished by a fine of not more than two thousand pesos or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or by both, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 2. Any person who fraudulently alters the draft of any bill, resolution, or Act or proposed Act pending before or enacted by the Philippine Commission, the Philippine Assembly, the Philippine Legislature, or any Insular legislative body of the Philippine Íslands hereafter established, or pending before or passed by any provincial board or municipal or township council, or who fraudulently alters any report, paper, or document presented to such Commission, Assembly, or other legislative body of the Philippine Islands, or of any such provincial board or municipal or township council, or under consideration by any such body, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five thousand pesos or by imprisonment for not more than five years, or by both, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 3. Any person who, being summoned to attend as a witness before the Philippine Commission, the Philippine Assembly, or any Insular legislative body of the Philippine Islands hereafter established, or before any committee of either or any of said bodies, fails or refuses, without legal excuse, to attend pursuant to such summons, and any person who, being present before any such body or committee, willfully refuses to be sworn or to answer any legal inquiry or to produce, upon reasonable notice any material and proper books, papers, documents, records, or other evidence in his possession or under his control, required by any such body, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand pesos, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both, in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 4. The public good requiring the speedy enactment of this bill, the passage of the same is hereby expedited in accordance with