Public Land Survey System

PLSS (The Public Land Survey System) Use this link: https://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/a_plss.html

The Land Ordinance of 1785 i.e. the Public Land Survey System is the second part of the American Social Construct created to insure domestic tranquility by establishing permanent boundaries between neighbors and nations. Together, with the Declaration of Independence these two elements form the moral, social and legal basis on which the Constitution and your Bill of Rights as citizen owner manager were later written! [Click the link!]

The Public Land Survey System required nine years to invent and was legislated into federal law as the Land Ordinance of 1785, 1786 and 1805. The primary purpose or goal of the PLSS is threefold: (1) by federal law land rights must have a survey to be lawfully convey ownership of the national "soil" to you today as the citizen owner manager. (2) This title allows the citizen owner managers, as a community, to use this public "soil" to pay down the national debt; provided a majority of this community agree to do so by verified vote. (3) To establish by legislation, to physically monument by survey and placement of "corners" into the "soil" and by lawfully recording and mapping these surveys, manufacture/create domestic tranquility between neighbors and nations, by the installation of a specific grid of permanent boundaries, specifically defined as the TRS Grid (Township Range Section Grid). Scroll Down to see the Township Range Section Map of Walton County published by your expressly conditional sub licensed Government of the State of Florida.

The installation of the TRS Grid required many years of hard physical work and a large investment of public capital, aka public money, i.e. Your money. You paid for this TRS Grid, you own it, and you can use it to pay down the national debt like the Founding Fathers did in the past and wanted you to be able do today; long before the national debt exceeded 21 Trillion dollars.

We have picked Florida as an example...

For four reasons; (1) Florida was not part of the original thirteen colonies, (2) most of Florida is surrounded by water, (3) Florida’s unique shape is known to most Americans and (4) because Florida was owned by Spain; however, it had a somewhat different shape in 1776.

Using a modern map as a background the conditions of 1776 are depicted in the map to the right. Notice that Spain’s Florida is divided into two parts. The West Florida part is very large, so large in fact that it covers the bottom half of today’s Mississippi, the bottom half of today’s Alabama and even a part of today's eastern Louisiana.

Things were so different that Spain’s Capital of West Florida was New Orleans!

In 1812, a War breaks out between the United States and Spain and by 1814, Spain has lost this war.

In 1819, Spain officially "Sues America for Peace" and offers to give up its ownership of West Florida as a token of good faith. Spain also seeks to trade East Florida and the Florida Keys to the United States in exchange for five Million Dollars of War Reparation Credit, and formally end all hostilities and be friends again.

This offer is accepted in the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1821 and Florida becomes the Public property of the United States as defined by the PLSS under the American Social Construct in basically four steps.

Graphic map showing the original thirteen colonies in 1776, the Indian Reserve Proclamation line of 1763, Spain’s West Florida, and Spain’s East Florida.

Graphic map showing the eastern half of the United States, with the northern and western borders of Florida, highlighted in red.

PLSS Step One:
A new northern border of Florida is monumented by an Original Federal Cadastral Survey, this includes surveying and placing monuments in the "soil" on the short new western border of Florida with Alabama as well. Find the red lines in the image to the left. (we have included the outlines of today’s States to provide you with a better visual reference.)

PLSS Step Two:
Your public land of Florida is divided into two counties; Escambia and St. John’s, with the Suwannee River as the line of division between them.

Graphic map of Florida showing Escambia County and Saint John’s County separated by the Suwannee River as well as the Florida "Keys", in 1821.

Graphic map of Florida in 1824 showing the intersection of the Latitude Base Line (east west line) and the Tallahassee Meridian Line (north south line) that creates four quarters or four “Ranges”.

PLSS Step Three:
The Tallahassee Monument is survey into place and the X or cross marks the spot in this map. There was no city of Tallahassee then. This spot turned out to be a lightly wooded field. This monument marks the intersection of the Principal north/south Meridian,the line to the North and South polls of the Earth. The Horizontal line is the Base Latitude Line established by this original Federal Cadastral Survey.

This intentionally divides your Public Land into four Ranges, or boxes, with a center point between them. Starting at this center point the Township Range Section Grid is created in each box by separate “Cadastral” surveys and monumented into the soil as defined and required by the Public Land Survey System under the federal law created in the American Social Construct.

Simplified; this is how the PLSS works.
Start at the Tallahassee center point move inside one of the four ranges, (or boxes), (or rectangles), and survey out 5280 feet by 5280 feet north, then south, then east, then west. This creates a one mile by one-mile square of specifically located "soil" that can now be "sold for cash" by the patented purchase of its land use rights to private citizens or entities. This Product is manufactured.

This one mile square is a "Section" and every “Section” of your Public Land contains 640 acres. This one-mile square “Section” looks like the small drawing to the right. [Notice the Range/Section/Township color code: NW=Blue, NE=Green, SW=Yellow, and SE=Red]

Simple graphic of a one mile square “Section” as defined by the PLSS.

Simple graphic of a thirty-six mile square “Township” with numbered “Sections” that is color coded, as defined by the PLSS.

Surveying out thirty-six (36) of these one-mile Sections forms a Township. The 36 Sections of a Township are numbered in a very special way as you can see in this image to the left.
Also notice the TRS Grid color code; NW, north west is Dark Blue, NE, is north east and is light green. SW, is south west and is yellow, and SE, is south east and it is red.

So, it is that your Public Land State is divided into four Ranges, just as each Township can be divided into four Ranges and each Section can be divided into four Ranges. For years Townships are surveyed and Sections identified, documented, recorded and monuments are intentionally placed into the soil, witness trees are blazed and used to mark and locate each monument, and documents are filed into your public record. This hard work was paid for with your public money because you are the citizen owner manager by the American Social Construct.

Slowly the entire region of Florida is surveyed, as each range is monumented by cadastral survey and divided into many, many, Townships of 36 one mile square Sections. The Townships are surveyed into rows and columns inside each of the four Ranges like square tiles on the floor, the wall or the ceiling.

This continues until the all of your Public Land of Florida is surveyed, identified, and specifically located by the Township Range Section Grid with Tallahassee at the center point.

Current map of Florida showing all its Counties borders, with Walton County shown in RED and Lake Okeechobee in lite purple.

Here is a map of Florida showing all its Counties borders today. County borders are not square most of the time. County Borders often follow rivers, streams, and valleys so their shape is irregular.

The County shown in red is named Walton County and we have chosen this one at random. We could have picked any County in your Public Lands of Florida, because the PLSS system is consistent by the bed-rock non-directional federal law of the American Social Construct.
[Lake Okeechobee is shown in lite purple]

Below is the Township Range Section Map of Walton County published by your expressly conditional sub licensed Government of the State of Florida.

Look closely and notice all of the straight light blue lines that form many large squares in rows and columns from the top of Walton County to its bottom, and from the right side to the left side, like the squares of a custom patchwork quilt.
These larger squares are the Townships of Walton County. Each Township is a 6 mile by 6 mile square of Walton County "soil".

You can trust us that the smaller Section squares are inside each Township. Sections are the one mile by one mile surveyed squares. The Section numbers 1 thru 36 are at the center of each Township shown on this map.

You can use this link to see a much larger image that allows you to examine more detail. However, you will be leaving this site but, you can return.

What is the point?

Today, we still use and rely on the TRS Grid because, by federal law it cannot be changed, moved, or relocated; so the U.S. Supreme Court has consistently ruled for more than 150 years.

This TRS Grid method is also how property taxes have always been assessed. It is how Public Land Use Rights are described on Deeds, in Tax Bills, and on the Titles recorded in your Public Record.

The Township Range Section Map of Walton County published by the State of Florida.

That’s right, all the homes, business, roads, bridges, everything in the Public Lands of America is located, Titled, and Taxed using the TRS Grid methodology.

By law, the TRS Grid itself, is a federal monument to domestic tranquility that your money build, recorded, and paid for. You own the TRS Grid monuments just like you own the monument known as the White House, the Washington Monument or every Nation Park and they are all protected by federal law. Attempting to destroy or even damage a national monument is a federal crime. [The penalties for violations of this section are tied to the extent of the property damage. As amended on September 13, 1994, if the damage exceeds $100, the defendant is subject to a fine of up to $250,000, ten years imprisonment, or both. 1666. Destruction Of Government Property -- 18 U.S.C. § 1361 | JM ... https://www.justice.gov › ... › Criminal Resource Manual 1601-1699]

When the TRS Grid is physically monumented into the soil of the public land; a “Public Land Use Patent” could be sold.
A Patent is signed by the President of the United States and uses the TRS Grid to legally describe the location, the size, shape, and specific Township where the Public Land Use Rights are being purchased. This this the Root or Source of all Public Land Use Right Titles and Deeds today.

The boundaries of a patented parcel of public land are permanent by federal law. cite Clark's on Surveying and Boundaries 8th ed.

PLSS Step Four:

Did you notice that there was no state government of Florida when this federal surveying started in 1821?

Florida did not receive its expressly conditional sublicense of Statehood until twenty-four years later, on March 3rd, of 1845.

Thus, any patents were sold before the state of Florida even existed.

Shown to the right is page one of this two page document.

Page two is directly below, and you should read Section 7.

However, it would not hurt to re-view the whole page which includes Section 5.

This section acknowledges your title to the Public Lands of Florida.

Page one of the Congressional ACT Establishing Florida’s sublicense of Statehood in 1845.

Page two of the Congressional ACT Establishing Florida’s sublicense of Statehood in 1845, with Section Seven being of particular interest.

While all of this TRS Grid surveying and monumenting was going on, a regional government was forming in Florida. Mean while people were buying federal land patents for public land use and building the capital city of Tallahassee in the wooded field where the center monument was permanently "set" in the Florida "soil".

This regional government applied to become a US Territory first and when they had agreed and complied to all of these terms and conditions they applied for a statehood sub license under the non-discretionary federal rules of the PLSS. Florida's conditional regional government then agreed in writing and by oath to additional terms and conditions of this sub license. This sublicense is titled “Statehood” but, it is just like your driver’s sublicense, however it does look different.

You knew when you got your driver's license that you had to follow the rules or be punished, and that you can even lose your sublicense to drive if you broke the rules.

This “Statehood sub license” is exactly the same, except it is the PLSS and the American Social Construct that are the guiding rules. You are the citizen owner manager so you cause them to be enforced.

The regional government of Florida was Admitted into the Union on the “express condition” that it … “shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the public lands lying within it”.

In it's sub license, there is a single expressed condition to Florida’s Statehood… the survival and perpetuation of your TRS Grid…the source of your Title and the Root of all subsequent Title/DEEDS… as installed by the Federal government for the Citizen Owner Managers by the PLSS and under the terms of the American Social Construct for your benefit and use, as the Citizen Owner Manager.

The TRS Grid is that important, it is that simple, it is Non-Discretionary Law and you are the Citizen Owner Manager.
Said another way, the regional government of Florida is a sub-licensee of your employee federal government and it is yours to manage.
The next question you as a Citizen Owner Manager might ask is, “Has Florida and the other Public Land States obeyed the law and protected the investment of the Citizen Owner Manager taxpayers in the TRS Grid?”

That is a very Good question! The Answer is both yes and no. [Additional Information about Walton County Florida is available at http://www.1south19west.com This is a link and you will leave this site should you use it.]

But now you are starting to think like a Citizen Owner Manager. Maybe you realize that by using this sub license system the Citizen Owner Managers can pay down the national debt, the way the Founding Fathers intended, but as your employees are currently not doing. Even though the Citizen Owner Managers are now more than 21 trillion dollars in debt thanks to so-called TAX REFORM, the Health Care train wreck and very questionable executive management we have selected.

It is clearly poor management to be that far in debt. A well organized community of Citizen Owner Managers would hold the employees accountable for this miss-management and breach of oath and duty.

Now is the time for America to evolve, progress, and get organized. Fortunately, you have this patented web site to help you do that. Let's get started.

Do you want to see your executive employees tax returns? Do you want your executive employee to divest himself and abide by the emoluments clause of the Constitution? The Constitution that we all are required to follow? No one is above the law. You are an American Citizen Owner Manager, you can tell him if he does not, that he is Fired. But, if he does comply, you should help him and your employee government to better manage the nation We Own together. As an American citizen owner manager it is your social and moral imperative to take action.

Summary of the PLSS

The Public Land Survey System has Eight Primary Functions

Under federal law, to have an enforceable contract for ownership of land, there must be a survey.

To provide a method and a model to perpetually and continually pay down the national debt.
To establish, promote, and enforce, by federal law, domestic peace and harmony within America through perpetually stable boundaries between neighbors and nations by the use and enforcement of the Township Range Section Grid [TRS Grid].
To establish, promote, and enforce, by federal law, domestic peace and harmony in America through the other non-discretionary operational terms of the PLSS imposed on and required of the conditionally sublicensed state governments.
To perpetually benefit the Owner Managers of the United States, by the establishment and uniform enforcement of your federally contracted ownership rights, and by paying down the national debt through its non-discretionary operation.
To protect the financial investment of the investors [entities and persons who purchase specifically located Public Land Use Rights] by uniformly enforcing our Constitutional federal law in all states.

6. The PLSS empowers Congress to contract with regional governments (on the Owners behalf), who first apply, and then freely give oath to be loyal, honest, diligent, and liable under the constitutionally established federal law and the terms of the American Social Construct. To become conditionally sublicensed states. These regional governments agree to be bound by the terms of the American Social Construct thru the Act of Statehood sub license for the benefit of the Owner Managers. [We the People]

Thus a states privileged legal authority is federally granted to the regional government by the conditionally issued sub license to operate, manage, and fulfill the terms of the PLSS without discretion or interference ever.
The terms of a conditional PLSS sub license are inclusive of liability, oversight, and enforcement. No immunity is implied or expressed in following the PLSS/TRS Grid methodology, and the uniform enforcement of federal law to achieve the fulfillment of the seven functions of the PLSS.
Today, there are thirty (30) Public Land States and each has a sublicense which is conditional on full compliance with the terms of the PLSS, the Constitution and the rest of the American Social Construct.
1. A common sublicense is a driver’s license; which is conditionally issued by a government agency to individuals who apply for, and accept liability, oversight, and enforcement; in exchange for the privilege of operating a motor vehicle.
The PLSS identifies the two primary parties to the public land use right patent, which are:
1. “We the People”, as the beneficiaries and the investors, together as one, who are then the Owner Managers of America.
2. The employee government of the United States, all its institutions, subsidiaries, conditionally sublicensed regional governments, and all of its paid government employees, including all elected politicians.

7. A land contract must have a survey to convey ownership title, thus the PLSS documents and defines the parties to the American Social Construct as (1) You the Owner and (2) Your employee government.

8. The eight primary functions of the PLSS play a central role in the property management of America today. This is how your public land use rights (your home and your back yard) are titled, and transferred to each other and from one generation to the next, assessed, and taxed.

As the Citizen Owner Manager, you paid for the PLSS. Your ownership of the United States protects your investment in all of this, using all the branches of the military, under federal law.

Under the American Social Construct, Your United States, is required to enforce federal law uniformly in all States, and to do so with military force if necessary, as it did in the Civil War.

The Civil War was a destructive Revolution against the American Social Construct, the PLSS, your legislated civil ownership rights, and your expressed constitutional rights as an American citizen. Thousands of Americans died, but in the end, the United States was re-united by the American Social Construct because of federal law, and the courage, the strength, and the dedication of Abraham Lincoln. This was his job as your paid executive employee.

Today, the uniform enforcement of federal law is critical to you personally. It is why you have ownership rights, civil rights, constitutional rights all of these are binding rights (that you maybe just learning about).

Fundamentally, it is the federal law that unites “We the People” in the ownership of the United States of America and this is non-discretionary law.

These Public Land Use Rights Patents are secured by a good faith contract enforced by the federal law created by the third element of the America Social Construct, the Constitution. This same element confirms you as beneficiary, the Living Owner.

The PLSS identifies that both factual American citizens, and any entity that invests in a Land Patent is a vested Owner Manager of America. However, since investing in a Land Patent does not grant citizenship, only a factual American citizen can become a voting member of the Owner Manager Community.

A Definition of the PLSS

The PLSS is the legal methodology invented and legislated by the Founding Fathers through the Land Act of 1785, 1786, and 1805. This legislated method is how the government of each state acquired its conditional and non-discretionary PLSS sublicense of statehood (see the Florida sub license below).

The PLSS allowed the United States government as an entity, to survey the nation, it resulted in the publication of the U.S. Geological Survey in the nineteen seventies. It all started by allowing the federal government to sell two products it invented and then manufactured. These products are (1) specifically located public land use rights patents (like your home and your back yard) and (2) investment securities sold on the global markets to finance the operation of your nation. The public land use rights patents were sold from American government ownership into the private ownership of the investors as land use rights only. Private citizens do not own the "soil" they own the right to use it as defined and located by the Township Range Section Grid (TRS Grid).

The PLSS requires three things: the purchase and use of a Land Patent containing a legal description, issued under the hand and seal of the President, (this is a transaction involving cash money) and a “Cadastral Survey”. This special type of survey installs by monuments and identifies the specific location of the public land by the Township Range Section Grid (TRS Grid) method which uses the rectangular surveying rules so that land use right patents could be specifically identified, located, and described legally, then sold out of government into private hands.

This non-discretionary process locates and specifically defines where the rights of use are being sold; and confirms it by the physical monuments placed into the earth; additionally witness trees are located, recorded, identified, and blazed or marked, this makes them protected as they are a part of the TRS monument. The survey is platted, inventoried and recorded in the public record. This location can never be changed, physically moved, or relocated. This is a “Cadastral Survey” by {The Manual of Instructions for the Survey of the Public Lands of the United States} It is non-discretionary, like your ownership aka your Constitutional civil rights.

When purchased by everyday American citizens, these specifically located public land use rights patents are secured by a good faith contract enforced by the federal law created by the Constitutional element of the American Social Construct.

The Land Patent does not transfer actual individual ownership of public land to a private entity. It only transfers the contracted rights to use the public land specifically identified and located by the PLSS/TRS Grid method. These public land use rights are specified in the actual text of the land patent document as a legal description.

Under the American Social Construct, you, as the citizen owner manager of the United States continues to hold allodial title to the land, sea, and air of America as well as the TRS Grid monuments, all the witness trees, as recorded in and depicted by the plat maps of the original Cadastral surveys. A private buyer has purchased patented title to all of the defined "soil" use rights of that specifically patented land, but even this land is still part of the United States because only the use rights have been sold. So, "We the People" are still the Owner Managers of the nations land mass.

Operation of the PLSS

As a citizen owner manager it is important to understand the relationship between how the Public Land Survey System works and how a sub license works. It is not obvious how to put this together at first, but in the end, it is just as simple as your driver’s license. Because a driver’s license is one type of sublicense. A sublicense is a contract that involves granting privileges to do something, subject to specific restrictions. Example: A drivers license.

You knew when you got your drivers sub license that you had to follow the rules because there is no immunity promised to you what so ever when you go driving. You know when you are driving that you can and will be punished if you break the rules and that you can even lose your sub license to drive by suspension or revocation; “It is a privilege not a Right” to hold a sub license.

What has a sub license got to do with the PLSS? To answer that and give you, the Owner, the benefit of the “Big Picture”, we’ll go back to 1776, start there and come forward.

There were thirteen colonies joined together by agreement, necessity and a common interest. Like the war with England that these colonies had started with the unanimous passage of the Declaration of Independence by Congress. That’s it, that is all there was of the original United States of America, thirteen colonies.

However, a founding principal of this New Nation is the private ownership of Public Land Use Rights as established by the PLSS in the Land Act of 1785.

With the passage of the PLSS, all, every square mile of the land that will become the United States, will be acquired as Public Land under the American Social Construct and subject to the rules of the PLSS so that you own it. Your Public Lands.

This was a big deal; this was the first time on the planet Earth that a Government will allow and encourage “ordinary people” to purchase Patented Public Land Use Rights as private property fee simple! We think of this as normal today but in 1776, it was very “Evolutionary”.

History of the PLSS

As Owner, property management is your game.
Property Management is how you can pay down the national debt.
Property Management is how Donald John Trump made all of his money.
Good Property Management fulfills the American Social Contract.

References:
Land Act of 1785, Land Act of 1786 & Land Act of 1805; General Land Office; and Bureau of Land Management
PLSS defined at the US Geological Survey website
Wikipedia definition of the Public Land Survey System
Image sources: Bureau of Land Management | Trulia: Parcel Surveying

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