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Any person who unauthorizedly removes from any land which is set apart for a special purpose or from any land which is the property of Government, any natural product (not being trees) shall be liable to the Government for the value thereof, and in addition, to a fine not exceeding five times the value, of the natural product so removed. Such value and fine shall be recoverable from him as an arrear of land revenue.