Article XIII Compact With The United States

N.D. Const.

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Section 1

Perfect toleration of religious sentiment must be secured, and no inhabitant of
this state may ever be molested in person or property on account of that person's mode of
religious worship.

Section 2

Jurisdiction is ceded to the United States over the military reservations of Fort
Abraham Lincoln, Fort Buford, Fort Pembina, and Fort Totten, heretofore declared by the
president of the United States; provided, legal process, civil and criminal, of this state, extends
over those reservations in all cases in which exclusive jurisdiction is not vested in the United
States, or of crimes not committed within the limits of those reservations. The legislative
assembly may provide, upon the terms and conditions it adopts, for the acceptance of any
jurisdiction as may be delegated to the state by act of Congress.

Section 3

The state of North Dakota hereby accepts the several grants of land granted by
the United States to the state of North Dakota by an Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide
for the division of Dakota into two states, and to enable the people of North Dakota, South
Dakota, Montana and Washington to form constitutions and state governments, and to be
admitted into the union on equal footing with the original states, and to make donations of
public lands to such states," under the conditions and limitations therein mentioned; reserving
the right, however, to apply to Congress for modification of said conditions and limitations in
case of necessity.

Section 4

All other provisions of the Enabling Act of Congress approved on February
22,
1889, 25 United States Statutes at Large
676, chapter
180, and section
1 of this article of the
Constitution of North Dakota, as section
1 existed immediately before the adoption of this
section, are continued in effect as though fully recited and continue to be irrevocable without
the consent of the United States and the people of this state.
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