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Act not to be reckon

the Acts of

ions of the Codes, but not incorporated in either Code, are chiefly temporary in their character, and for that reason ought not to have a place in a Code intended to be permanent. But in order to do away with the use of the volumes of the statutes all such Acts should be compiled and published in one volume. We have in the Fifth Part of this Code made provisions for such publication.

SEC. 20. This Act shall not, in any citation or enumeed as one of ration of the statutes, be reckoned as one of the Acts of the present session, but may be designated as the Political Code, adding, when necessary, the number of the section.

present

session.

PART I.

OF THE SOVEREIGNTY AND PEOPLE OF THE STATE, AND OF THE POLITICAL RIGHTS AND

DUTIES OF ALL PERSONS SUBJECT

TO ITS JURISDICTION.

1

PART I.

OF THE SOVEREIGNTY AND PEOPLE OF THE STATE,
AND OF THE POLITICAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF
ALL PERSONS SUBJECT TO ITS JURISDICTION.

TITLE I. SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATE.

II. PERSONS COMPOSING THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE.
III. POLITICAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF ALL PER-
SONS SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION OF THE
STATE.

TITLE I.

SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATE.

CHAPTER I. Residence of Sovereignty.

II. Territorial Jurisdiction of the State.
III. General Rights of the State over Persons.
IV. General Rights of the State over Property.

CHAPTER I.

RESIDENGE OF SOVEREIGNTY.

SECTION 30. Sovereignty resides in the people.

SEC. 30. The sovereignty of the State resides in the people thereof, and all writs and processes must issue in

their name.

Sovereignthe people.

ty resides in

Territorial jurisdiction

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.

SEC. 33. The sovereignty and jurisdiction of this State limitations extend 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.

NOTE.-Story on the Constitution, Sec. 207.

SEC. 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, magapublic use; zines, 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 thercon in the same mode and manner and by the same officers as if the purchase or condemnation had not been made.

NOTE.-Stats. 1852, p. 149; Constitution of United States, Article I, Sec. 8.

Rights over

persons enumerated.

CHAPTER III.

GENERAL RIGHTS OF THE STATE OVER PERSONS.

SECTION 37.-Rights over persons enumerated.

SEC. 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;

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