To get on the Land jurisdiction as quickly as possible, this is what you need:
- Cover Sheet
- 1779 Declaration
- Two Witness Testimonies
- Your Birth Certificate (not recorded)
Tips:
- The only inputs required are the name of the State where you were born (your native state), and the name of the Oklahoma County where you currently live, plus the day, month, year, and your hand-printed autograph.
- You will autograph your name in printed Upper and Lower Case, as taught in Grade School; not in cursive.
- The Recording Secretary will need a copy of your certified Birth Certificate to determine that you were born on a state, but it is not necessary to record it.
- For any of your documents, including the notary section, “nee” means “formerly known as”, or for a woman, this indicates her maiden name before she was married. Example; for a woman who was given the name Jane Marie Doe at birth (but now her married name is Smith), the text in the Notary section would read like this “… is the living woman known to me to be Jane Marie Smith (nee Doe) and she did issue this…”
- For the 1779 Declaration, as well as the rest of the 928’s, the appropriate word is “autograph”, not “signature”. For the purposes of this comparison, a signature is made by a signatory, which indicates that “person” has been given the authority to sign for the benefit of a corporation, trust, or legal person or other legal entity. By contrast, when a man or woman creates something – a piece of art, or a book, or a lawful document, they write down their autograph. Signatures are written at the lower left of a legal instrument. Autographs are written at the lower right of a document.
- Use a blue pen (not Navy), and a red ink pad for the 1779 Declaration.
- The 1779 Declaration must be autographed and sealed with your thumb print in front of the Notary. The notary will require a form of ID (Driver’s License or Passport will work fine). They will then complete the Notary section with their signature, date, seal, license number, and the date of expiration of their seal. The purpose of the notary is to provide evidence of your identity, that you are alive and not dead, that you are autographing (or signing as the case may be) your documents freely, willingly, and with full awareness of what you are doing.
- The Witnesses testimonies are likewise signed in the presence of a notary. The people who sign the Witness Testimonies are people who have first hand knowledge of who you are (friends, family, classmates, long time employers, coworkers, etc.) and where and when you were born, clearly identifying a picture of you as “the” one who was born at such and such a time and place to such parents, and on an American state.
- Notary services are offered at your local bank, a UPS or FedEx store, The Oklahoma Assembly Recording Secretary, and also your County Clerk Recording Office. It is a good idea to call ahead and confirm that a Notary is in the office on the day you want to come in, and what fee they charge per document. Many people find a place to get their documents notarized, and then they proceed to the next step of getting them recorded. Alternatively, you can have your documents both notarized and recorded at the same place (read below).
- You have two methods of recording your documents to the Land & Soil jurisdiction.
- Our Oklahoma Assembly Recording Secretaries, using the LRO system (Land Recording Office). We recommend to do this first, as it is the easiest method of recording your documents. Reach out on The Oklahoma Assembly Telegram group or to the Oklahoma Coordinator via email to make contact with an Oklahoma Assembly Recording Secretary. Once your documents are prepared with everything except your autograph and thumb-print seal, you can contact a Recording Secretary, and they will schedule a video phone call with you, where they will remotely witness your autograph and seal. Then you will mail your documents to the Recording Secretary, and they will notarize, assign a land record number, and publish your documents to the Land Recording Office system (LRO for short). (Of course if you have already notarized your documents in town, then skip the remote witnessing and mail them to the Recording Secretary.) The Land Recording Office is a recording system hosted on The American State Assemblies secure servers, and that system is on the public record, on the Land & Soil. Contact your Recording Secretary for instructions for using this system and to purchase credits to record on this system. The LRO was created because many State Nationals were encountering difficulty winning the cooperation of their County Clerk Land Records Office – read below.
- Your local County Clerk Land Records Office. As with the Notary, it is a good idea to call ahead, and see what they charge to record your documents. If they have no issues recording documents they are not familiar with, then the experience may be even more convenient than recording to the LRO, because it will be in your home county.
- However: during the conversation with the Land Records Office clerk, if you mention the type of document you are recording, you will find out quickly if they are familiar with it, or if they will record it without batting an eye, or if they will not record it; in which case you can make other plans. Historically, this is the office where people recorded their important documents, births or deaths in the community, marriages, land purchases, or any declarations or deeds to make them a “settled matter” on public record. Today many people are only familiar with using these offices to record titles or warranty deeds to land or homes, and to search other public records. Unfortunately, many County Clerks are unfamiliar with the State National political status, and many of the lawful documents associated with this process. For this reason, some clerks will refuse to record altogether. It is for this reason that the LRO is being used by many State Nationals to “get on the Land” initially. Having said that; it is still advisable to have your documents recorded through your local County Clerk Land Records Office, because it allows your documents to begin the “curing process” sooner. This is the period – about 6 months – where your documents are processed and generally “accepted” into the public record as a “settled matter”.
- Once you are ready to record your documents with your local County Clerk Land Records Office, it is helpful to be mentally prepared to explain the law (or statutes) to a clerk, as quite a few are not educated on the law (or statutes) as it pertains to the recording of documents.
- There are two jurisdictions at play here. There is the Land jurisdiction – the world of mankind – the domain where you can enforce your rights as a man or woman; and then there is the Sea jurisdiction; which is the realm of legal fictions, persons, corporations, estates, trusts, US persons, County Clerks, etc. and the code and regulations which apply to all US persons. It is important to remember that while any code or statute does not apply to a man or woman standing on the Land, it does apply to a US Citizen (14th Amendment), or any federally enfranchised title or office that a man or woman may assume. It is helpful to remember that if you are not expressly (in writing) or verbally, overtly, communicating that you are “coming forward” as a man or a woman (sui juris), then the legal system will “imply” that you are in their Sea jurisdiction. As with board games: If you are playing monopoly, then monopoly rules are implied. If you are playing Chess, those rules implied. If you are accepting the title of US Citizen, then it is implied that you are operating in that Sea jurisdiction (international commerce), and all of those rules apply; all US Code, statutes, State of Oklahoma Statutes, and city ordinances; they all apply.
- By contrast: if you are clear about it in your own mind and you “know who you are” and you are giving express notice that you are standing as a man or woman (sui juris) on the Land & Soil jurisdiction (this is what the 1779 Declaration accomplishes), then none of the US Code or State of Oklahoma statutes apply to you. On the Land jurisdiction, the main doctrine or maxim to be aware of is to “do no harm.” As long as you have not harmed a man or woman, or deprived them of their rights or their property, then there has been no crime.
- Therefore, as it pertains to friendly conversation with a County Clerk, you have two options; and you can use either to your advantage:
- If you prefer, you can simply remind them of the US Code which regulates the recording of documents, and show them the consequences for breaking the applicable State statutes or US Code. It is best to be familiar with these documents before entering into a conversation with a clerk, and a couple documents are provided below to help you do this.
- For an instruction on how to write notices and press a claim of trespass in open court, please click here.