POLITICAL CODE.
§ 1. Title. This act shall be known as the political code of the state of North Dakota, and is divided into chapters as follows:
CHAPTER 1.
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATE AND THE POLITICAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF ALL PERSONS SUBJECT TO ITS JURISDICTION.
§ 2. Territorial jurisdiction, limitations on. The sovereignty and jurisdiction of this state 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.
§ 3. Legislative consent to purchase of lands by United States. Jurisdiction over. The legislative assembly consents to the purchase or condemnation by the United States of any tract within this state for the purpose of erecting forts, magazines, 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 manner and by the same officers, as if the purchase or condemnation had not been made.
§ 4. Jurisdiction ceded. Jurisdiction is hereby ceded to the United States over any tract of land that may hereafter be acquired by the United States on which to establish a military post; provided, that legal process, civil and criminal, of this state shall extend over such land acquired by the United States to establish a military post, in all cases in which exclusive jurisdiction is not vested in the United States, and in all cases of crimes not committed within the limits of such reservation.
§ 6. Rights over persons enumerated. 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 public peace or health, or of individual life or safety;
3. To imprison or confine for the purpose of enforcing civil remedies;
