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§§ 5-13 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 ininors 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 township 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 or flood, and in such other cases as are provided by law.

§ 6. Original and ultimate title. The original and ultimate right to all property, real or personal, within the limits of this state is in the state.

§ 7. Property escheats when. All property, real and personal, within the limits of this state, which does not belong to any person or to the United States, belongs to the state. Whenever the title to any property fails for want of heirs or next of kin, it reverts to the state.

§ 8. Acquisition by taxation and assessment. The state may acquire property by taxation in the modes authorized by law.

§ 9. By right of eminent domain. It may acquire or authorize others to acquire title to property, real or personal, for public use in the cases and in the mode provided by law.

§ 10. Who are the people. The people, as a political body, consist:

1. Of citizens who are electors;

2. Of citizens not electors.

§ 11. Who are citizens. The citizens of the state are:

1. All persons born in this state and residing within it, except the children of transient aliens and of alien public ministers and consuls;

2. All persons born out of this state and who are citizens of the United States and residing within this state.

§ 12. Residence, rules for determining. Every person has in law a residence. In determining the place of residence the following rules are to be observed:

1. It is the place where one remains when not called elsewhere for labor or other special or temporary purpose, and to which he returns in seasons of repose;

2. There can be only one residence;

3. A residence cannot be lost until another is gained;

4. The residence of the father during his life, and after his death the residence of the mother, while she remains unmarried, is the residence of the unmarried minor children;

5. The residence of the husband is presumptively the residence of the wife;

6. The residence of an unmarried minor who has a parent living cannot be changed by either his own act or that of his guardian;

7. The residence can be changed only by the union of act and intent.

§ 13. All persons within the state subject to its jurisdiction. Every person while within this state is subject to its jurisdiction and entitled to its protection.