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1322 HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Article 10.-Security from search and arrest.
Every person has the right to be secured from all unreasonable searches and seizures of his person, his house, his
papers, and effects; and no warrant shall issue, except on probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, and
describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
RIGHTS OF PROPERTY.
Article 11.-Taxing and appropriating power.
Section 1. No subsidy, duty, or tax of any description shall be established or levied without the consent of the
Legislature; nor shall any money be drawn from the public treasury without such consent, except in the manner
directed by this constitution.
Sec. 2. Each member of society has the right to be protected in the enjoyment of his life, liberty, and property
according io law; and, therefore, lie shall be obliged to contribute his proportion or share to the expense of this
protection and to give his personal services, or any equivalent when necessary, as may he provided by law.
Article 12.-Eminent domain.
Private property may betaken for public use, or may be used for reservoirs, drains, flumes, or ditches, on or across
the lands of others, for agricultural, milling, mining, domestic, or sanitary purposes; but only upon due process of
law and just compensation.
Article 13.-Military subject to law.
Section 1. The military shall always be subject to the laws of the land.
Sec. 2. No soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of
war but in a manner prescribed by the Legislature.
OF THE REPUBLIC.
Article 14.-Form and name of Government.
The character of the Government hereby instituted is a republic, under the terms and conditions of this constitution.
The name of such Government is and shall be the Republic of Hawaii.
Article 15.-Territory.
The territory of the Republic of Hawaii shall be that heretofore constituting the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands
and the territory ruled over by the provisional government of Hawaii, or which may hereafter be added to the
Republic.
Article 16.-Ensign.
The ensign heretofore in use as the Hawaiian national ensign shall continue to be the national ensign of the Republic
of Hawaii.
Article 17.-Citizens.
Section 1. A citizen of the Republic of Hawaii shall be-
A person born in the Hawaiian Islands; or
A person who has been, or shall hereafter become, naturalized according to law.
Special rights of citizenship.
Sec. 2. Any person, not a Hawaiian citizen, who took active part or otherwise rendered substantial service in the
formation of and has since supported the Provisional Government of Hawaii, who shall within six mouths from the
promulgation of this constitution procure from the minister of the interior a certificate of such service, in manner and
form herein set forth, and who shall take an oath to support thin constitution and the law of the Republic so long as
he shall remain domiciled in the Republic, shall be entitled to all the privileges of citizenship without thereby
prejudicing his native citizenship or allegiance.
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