PART I. OF THE SOVEREIGNTY AND PEOPLE OF THE STATE, AND OF THE POLITICAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF ALL PERSONS SUB JECT TO ITS JURISDICTION. PART I. OF THE SOVEREIGNTY AND PEOPLE OF THE STATE, TITLE I. SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATE. II. PERSONS COMPOSING THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE. III. POLITICAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF ALL TITLE I. SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATE. CHAPTER I. Residence of Sovereignty. II. Territorial Jurisdiction of the State. CHAPTER I. RESIDENCE OF SOVEREIGNTY. SECTION 30. Sovereignty resides in the people. 30. The sovereignty of the State resides in the people thereof, and all writs and processes must issue in their name. Sover eignty resides in the people. Territorial jurisdic tations on. CHAPTER II. TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION OF THE STATE. SECTION 33. Territorial jurisdiction; limitations on. 34. Legislative consent to purchase, etc., of lands by United States for public use; jurisdiction over. 33. The sovereignty and jurisdiction of this State tion, limi- extends to all places within its boundaries as established by the Constitution, but the extent of such jurisdiction over places that have been or may be ceded to, purchased, or condemned by the United States, is qualified by the terms of such cession or the laws under which such purchase or condemnation has been or may be made. Legislative consent to purchase, etc., of lands by United States for jurisdiction over. 34. The Legislature consents to the purchase or condemnation by the United States of any tract of land within this State for the purpose of erecting forts, magpublic use; azines, arsenals, dock yards, and other needful buildings, upon the express condition that all civil process issued from the Courts of this State, and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of this State, against any person charged with crime, may be served and executed thereon in the same mode and manner and by the same officers as if the purchase or condemnation had not been made. Rights over persons enumerated. CHAPTER III. GENERAL RIGHTS OF THE STATE OVER PERSONS. SECTION 37.-Rights over persons enumerated. 37. The State has the following rights over persons within its limits, to be exercised in the cases and in the manner provided by law: 1. To punish for crime; 2. To imprison or confine for the protection of the Same. public peace or health or of individual life or safety; 3. To imprison or confine for the purpose of enforcing civil remedies; 4. To establish custody and restraint for the persons of idiots, lunatics, drunkards, and other persons of unsound mind; 5. To establish custody and restraint of paupers for the purposes of their maintenance; 6. To establish custody and restraint of minors unprovided for by natural guardians, for the purposes of their education, reformation, and maintenance; 7. To require services of persons, with or without compensation: In military duty; in jury duty; as witnesses; as town or village officers; in highway labor; in maintaining the public peace; in enforcing the service of process; in protecting life and property from fire, pestilence, wreck, and flood; and in such other cases as are provided by statute. CHAPTER IV. GENERAL RIGHTS OF THE STATE OVER PROPERTY. SECTION 40. Original and ultimate title. 40. 41. Property escheats, when. 42. Intruders on public lands of the State. 43. Acquisition by taxation and assessment. and The original and ultimate right to all prop Original erty, real and personal, within the limits of this State, ultim is in the people thereof. 41. escheats, All property, real and personal, within the Property limits of this State, which does not belong to any per- when. son, belongs to the people. Whenever the title to 3*-VOL. I. |