When the County Clerks Won’t Do Their Job

The county clerk (lower “c” is your common law county Recorder) is supposed to take any and
all affidavits given to her/him to record. If the clerk gives you any hassle, you will have to be
prepared. Always be as nice as possible when speaking to these officials, never have a bad or
cocky attitude as it will do more harm than good. First, understand that if s/he says that her/his
county attorney told her/him not to record any documents like yours, then tell her/him that s/he is
the one who is refusing your affidavit, that you don’t accept any third party interveners and that
you will hold her/him personally responsible for any damages. Even though s/he is using her/his
county attorney as a scapegoat, s/he is the one making a legal determination about your affidavit.
You can ask her/him if s/he has a license for practicing law and then inform her/him that if s/he
wants to rebut anything in your affidavit, that s/he more than welcome to. Short of that s/he
needs to fulfill her/his oath, perform her/his sworn duty and record your affidavit.

If s/he doesn’t get the picture, then you need to play a little hard ball. Tell the clerk very nicely
that her/his failure to record the documents once deposited with her/him, is a crime against
justice under Revised Statutes of the United States First Section 43 Congress and that sections
5403, 5407 and 5408 total up to $9,000 in fines and up to 12 years in prison per affidavit s/he
fails to record. You can prepare the notice below and have the county clerk’s name on it and
hand it to her/him if it gets to this point. You can also try having someone else record your
document, as this sometimes seems to diffuse their rejections. It may also work if you send in
affidavits via Registered Mail, return receipt requested with instructions for the clerk to record
your affidavit. Remember there is a difference between “record” and “file.” I believe the
difference is that when a document is “recorded” it becomes “registered,” but when it is “filed it
is merely a reference in a proper place. The registered document is a “vessel operating in foreign
commerce.” The documents is now a matter of public “record” and the document/vessel can
now go into international commerce should the need arise.

If the county clerk still fails to perform her/his duty, then tell her/him that you have no choice but
to place an affidavit of criminal complaint against her/him for breaching her/his oath, destruction
of records, conspiracy to defeat enforcement of the laws, and throw in anything else you can
think of such as Title 18: 214, 242. Then you have to be prepared to carry through with this. See
Affidavit of Criminal Complaint.
NOTICE TO: County Clerk of county:

d/b/a

The minute you receive any affidavit, it is recorded. Should you refuse to record My affidavit,
once deposited with you, you are committing a crime against justice under Revised Statutes of
the United States First Section 43 Congress, Section 5403, 5407 and 5408 totaling up to
$9,000.00 in fines and up to 12 years in prison per affidavit if you fail to record. And 18 USC
Section 2071 carries fines, imprisonment and disqualification of office. If your county attorney
told you not to file any documents like mine, you are still responsible, as I do not accept any
third party interveners. Any attorney, district attorney, or anyone from the lawyering craft are all
third parties and do not have a license to make a legal determination in the matter as they do not
represent Me and you. The county clerk, do not have the authority to represent Me. Should you
fail to uphold your sworn oath and perform your duty, I will have no choice but to record a
criminal affidavit of complaint against you and a copy into your bonding company.

Title LXX—CRIMES--- CH.4. CRIMES AGAINST JUSTIVCE

(Destroying, & c., public records)

SEC. 5403. Every person who willfully destroys or attempts to destroy, or, with intent to steal
or destroy, take and carries away any record, paper, or proceeding of a court of justice, filed or
deposited with any clerk or officer of such court, or any paper , or document, or record filed or
deposited in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer, shall, without reference to
the value of the record, paper, document, or proceeding so taken, pay a fine of not more than two
thousand dollars, or suffer imprisonment, at hard labor, not more than three years, or both. [See
§§ 5408, 5411, 5412.1]

Title LXX – CRIMES – CH.4. CRIMES AGAINST JUSTICE

(Conspiracy to defeat enforcement of the laws)

SEC. 5407. If two or more persons in any State or Territory conspire for the purpose of
impeding, hindering, obstructing, or defeating, in any manner, the due course of justice in any
State or Territory, with intent to deny to any citizen the equal protection of the laws, or to injure
him or his property for lawfully enforcing, or attempting to enforce, the right of any person, or
class of persons, to the equal protection of the laws, each of such persons shall be punished by a
fine of not less than five hundred nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment, with
or without hard labor, not less than six months nor more than six years, or by both such fine and
imprisonment. [See §§ 1977-1991, 20042010, 5506-5510.1]

Title LXX --- CRIMES—CH.4. CRIMES AGAINST JUSTICE

(Destroying records by officer in charge)

SEC. 5408. Every officer, having the custody of any record, document, paper, or proceeding
specified in section fifty-four hundred and three, who fraudulently takes away, or withdraws, or
destroys any such record, document, paper, or proceeding filed in his office or deposited with
him or his custody, shall pay a fine of not more than two thousand dollars, or suffer
imprisonment at hard labor not more than three years, or both-, and shall, moreover, forfeit his
office and forever afterward disqualified from holding any office under the Government of the
United States.

18 USCS Section 2071 (2002)

Section 2071. (Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally)

(a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or

destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so, takes and carries away any
record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited
with the clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office,
or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this
title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book,
document, paper or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes,
mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title
and imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and
be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this
subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a
retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.

Date Time

By: Seal
By: Markus-Russell, Authorized Representative
C/O General Post
Palmyra, New Jersey

By:
Witness

By:
Witness