Here is how I know:
I inherited some land from a Great Uncle who was the original patent holder. He filed our patent in Constitutional gold coin 132 years ago. The original land patent was old and fragile. I went to the Bureau of Land Management to get certified copies of my land patent. Within the patent are your water and mineral rights etc. most importantly; to heirs and assigns forever. All your property rights are on the land patent, not on the deed.
Here is how the patent was hidden:
After the patent was given to the settlers from the Federal Government the local governments hid the patents with deeds. You can see this with a title search at your county recorders office. There is a book for patents and a book for deeds. The first deeds after the patent contained some verbiage from the patents ex: to heirs and assigns forever. The deeds that followed were absent any notion of a patent. Today the deed gives a description of the property. BUT your deed ( legal description) tells the Federal Government which land patent is yours. If you have a deed from when you purchased land you have a land patent.
The land patent takes the local government out of control of your land. They cannot tax, lien, seize, inspect, permit or make entry on to your property. As a land patent holder you have complete control of your property. Analogous to Common Law jurisdiction.
Here is the information that protects your patent:
Treaties;
The United States obtain land thru treaties, ex: Montana-Louisiana Purchase Treaty of 1803, California-Guadalupe Hildago Treaty of 1848.
The treaties are protected under The Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution, Article VI, Clause 2, Read it and know it, you
will use it to educate your County officials to be taken off the tax rolls. The Supremacy Clause is the Supreme Law of the Land, all State judges must abide by it and no other Constitutional or State Law withstanding ie eminent domain. Your land patent gives you allodial title which means private and owing no one. Having possession of your land patent returns your property to private. Not the “real property” as the local government describes your land.
Here is how you obtain your patent:
Find your State Bureau of Land Management office address. Send a copy of your purchase deed, be sure the legal description is on the deed. (Township, Section, Range) along with a USPS money order $20.00 for expenses and a short note asking for 3 certified copies of your land patent. Send certified mail with return receipt requested. Approx two weeks you will receive your land patents.
If you wish to not pay land taxes I can help you educate your County. Email me.
All questions are welcome.
Email; ibnxtc at yahoo
Interesting I am aware of a process of conveying a property into the private but you can’t have a mortgage
Does it cover small portions of land inside of city limits?