Land Patent Process
1.   Obtain a Certified Copy of your proof of ownership, ie, Warranty Deed or Quit Claim Deed, etc.  

2.  Find your Section, Township and Range either on your Tax Statement or the Legal Description on your Deed, Or if not on either of those, then go to your Counties GIS Mapping Website to obtain that information.. 
Then go to the BLM Website (www.glorecords.blm.gov)  and put that information in the search boxes there.  Find and order 3 certified copies of the original land patent that covers your land. **there is a how to video on the Land Patent Committee page.

3. Chain of Title – Research and obtain one Certified copy of every title transfer starting from your purchase backwards to the Original Land Patent.  
•	If you have an abstract, thats teriffic, its all in there, you just need to pull out the chain.
•	Or You may be able to search it all online if the records go all the way back online
•	Or you may physically go in to the county and search the records for free there.

4.  Create the Summary Chain of Title in this format:  Start from the Patent and go forward
•	Seller Name   to   Buyer Name   Date of Document (not recorded date)
•	make a note of each document number for each transfer in your chain, (older documents will be a Book# and Page#) It may be a divorce decree, probate or other type, not necessarily a deed.  the document #'s don't need to be written in on your summary chain of title. 
•	create a list of the Document #'s and mail it to the county with payment for a certified copy of each one.  Check with your county but its typically $10 each in minnesota.

5. Create the Acceptance and Declaration of Land Patent Document and Notice Page.           *You can pay Ron Gibson to do this for you or do it on your own.  Ron will need (1) the summary chain of title done and (2) a copy of your patent and (3) a copy of your deed.

6. Create the Allonge to Land Patent from Templates.  Renaming your homestead and redescribing it in metes and bounds with attaching pictures of your lot corners marked out and/or any surveys or maps can be attached.

7.  Patent Sandwich  - Create a package containing the following documents in order listed below..
•	Certificate of Acceptance and Declaration of Land Patent document
•	Copy of your Deed or other proof of ownership
•	Summary chain of title
•	Notice page
•	The certified copy of the Patent that relates to your land
•	Allonge to Land Patent

8.  Posting Options
•	Staple the pages of your package together and post for 61 days on a Bulletin board at your county court house or any other public building or
•	You can put in Newspaper and will also Post and display it on a Website with the domain name mentioned in the newspaper notice. 

Posting Option 1 - Post up in a Public Space, such as Courthouse, post office, fire station
a.  Staple at the bottom left corner of the first page, a colorful sticky tab or 3x5 card with the following handwritten notice:  
		                 NOTICE
	THIS NOTICE MUST BE POSTED FOR 60 DAYS   
              DATE POSTED_________ END DATE _________ 
                    THANK YOU       (YOUR INITIALS HERE)

b.  Bring a witness, take a photo of you posting the package.
c.  Do a notarized Testimony in the form of an Affidavit of you posting it. Note date time location and anything else that pertains to your posting. File in your master file, no record.
d.  Have the Witness do an affidavit as a witness to your posting. They can also be in the picture or the one taking the picture.  Notarize and file in you master file.  Does not get recorded.
e.  Check on it weekly to make sure it is still posted, if not, replace it with another copy.  Do a log of your checking on it each week and keep for your master file.
f. Bring a witness, preferably the same witness, when you remove the posting on the 61^st day and do another notarized Testimony in the form of an Affidavit. Note date time you removed the notice and anything else that pertains to it. File in your master file, no need to record it.

Posting Option 2 - Newspaper and Online
•	 You will place an ad in the Legal Notices Section of the Newspaper
•	 Run it 2 Times a week for 8 weeks. (doesn't matter which days you pick)
•	 Clip out the physical notice from the newspaper each day it comes out and place in your            master file along with your receipt and affidavit of posting.

    Ron suggests to write something simple like this in the Newspaper: 

	I, Your Name(s), am bringing forth my Land Patent Benefit. 
	If Interested see https://minnesotaassembly.net/public-notice

-There is a Page on our Minnesota Assembly Website called -Public Notice-
your Land Patent can be posted there for the 61 days.

9. Record the Original Document Package with the County Recorder. Bring a Witness with you. If they refuse to record it, refer to Rons book for guidance and law.
10.  Order a Certified Copy of the Recorded Sandwich at the same time of recording it.
11.  Also Publish/Record it in the Land Recording System.

 Your Patent Process in now completed.  Congratulations!