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Rights and duties of

persons not electors.

Of citizens

of other states.

Of aliens.

specially provided; and no person is eligible who is not such an elector.

§ 14. An elector has no rights or duties beyond those of a citizen not an elector, except the right and duty of holding and electing to office.

15. A citizen of the United States, who is not a citizen of this state, has the same rights and duties as a citizen of this state not an elector, except as provided by section 14.

§ 16. An alien has the same rights and duties as a citizen of the United States who is not a citizen of this state, except that he cannot hold real property in this state without having, in due form of law, declared his intention of becoming a citi

zen.

Transient aliens and

§ 17. A transient alien, or a citizen of the other states United States who is not a citizen of this state, is

citizens of

when not

liable to tax.

Trade with belligerent

state.

not liable to taxation in this state, for personal property lying without the state.

§ 18. During a war between the United States and any other government or country, all trade and intercourse between persons in this state and the subjects or citizens of that government or country is illegal, except under special license from the government of the United States.

rights not affected by

state of

war.

§ 19. The rights and duties of persons in this Other state are not affected by a state of war between the United States and any other government or country, or between any foreign governments or countries, otherwise than as provided in the last section, except that they cannot trade with either of the belligerents in articles contraband of war, or enter places regularly blockaded.

PART II.

BOUNDARIES AND DIVISIONS OF THE STATE.

SECTION 20. Territory of the state.

21. Cessions to the United States.

22. Counties of the state.

23. Judicial districts of the state.

24. Senatorial districts of the state.

25. Assembly districts of the state.
26. Congressional districts of the state.
27. Towns of the state.

28. Cities of the state.

29. Villages of the state.

the state.

§ 20. The sovereignty and jurisdiction of this Territory of state extend to all places within its bounds, which are hereby declared to be as follows: Beginning at Lyon's point in the mouth of a stream called Byram river, where it falls into Long Island sound, and running thence up along that stream to a rock at the ancient road or wading place in that stream, which rock bears north twelve degrees and fortyfive minutes east, five hundred and fifty rods from Lyon's point; then north twenty-three degrees and forty-five minutes west, two thousand two hundred and ninety-two rods; then east-northeast thirteen

miles and sixty-four rods, which lines were established in the year 1725, by Francis Harrison, Cadwallader Colden and Isaac Hicks, commissioners on the part of the then province of New York, and Jonathan Law, Samuel Eells, Roger Wolcott, John Copp and Edmund Lewis, commissioners on the part of the then colony of Connecticut, and were run as the magnetic needle then pointed; then along an east-northeast continuation of the last mentioned course, one mile threequarters of a mile and twenty-one rods, to a monument erected in the year 1731, by Cadwallader Colden, Gilbert Willett, Vincent Matthews and Jacobus Bruyn, junior, commissioners on the part of the province of New York, and Samuel Eells, Roger Wolcott and Edmund Lewis, commissioners on the part of the colony of Connecticut; which monument is at the southeast corner of a tract known and distinguished as the oblong or equivalent lands; then north twenty-four degreesa nd thirty minutes west, until intersected by a line run by the last mentioned commissioners on a course south twelve degrees and thirty minutes west, from a monument erected by them in the south bounds of Massachusetts; which monument stands in a valley in the Taghkanick mountains, one hundred and twenty rods eastward from a heap of stones in those bounds, on the top or ridge of the most westerly of those mountains; then north twelve

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