Laserfiche WebLink
agreement as a measure to absolve him of complicity in any such conduct if indeed it is <br />unlawful and followed through with by the Clerk of this Court. This is not a pleading <br />specific to any particular action, but rather pertains to each action in this Court over <br />which Defendant is believed to be delinquent in his payment of fines imposed thereunder. <br />1.2 The Court has demanded from the Defendant certain property as payment of a <br />lawful debt in cases commenced for alleged violations of the County Code of Gilpin. <br />This Court is threatening, or has indeed acted, to cause the cloud of Defendant's title, and <br />ability to enjoy his property for his failure to render Federal Reserve Notes (hereinafter <br />"FRNS") in sums specified in the docket for the above cited actions. It is this demand for <br />something other than gold or silver as a lawful debt that concerns the Defendant, and for <br />the following reasons he requires the Clerk or Judge of this Court to provide reasonable <br />assurance that the Defendant would not be participating in any conduct deemed to be in <br />violation of any governing provisions of law. <br />"The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land." <br />Colorado state Constitution Article I, § 2. <br />"No state shall ...make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of <br />debts." <br />United States Constitution, Article I, § 10. <br />1.3 With the full understanding that this provision of the U.S. Constitution has <br />never been repealed or amended in any way, Defendant sees any willingness on the part <br />of this Court to accept FRNs in lieu of gold and silver to be violative of "supreme law." <br />" ...Section 10, at4icle 1, U.S. constitution, prohibits the states from making <br />anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. U.S. Constitution, <br />amendment 10, provides that: "The powers not delegated to the United States by <br />the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states aze reserved to the states <br />respectively, or to the people.... (a) The act providing that debts shall be payable <br />in legal tender of the United States, notwithstanding any provision in the contract, <br />of course is not subject to construction. The only remaining question of a public <br />nature is the validity of the act of the last legislature providing that all contracts <br />may be satisfied in lawful money of the United States, regardless of their terms.. . <br />.The power of the state to declare a legal tender is limited to gold and sih~er coin. <br />Al! "lawful money" of the United States is not a legal tender for private <br />obligations by the laws of the United States; but under the grant of power to coin <br />money and regulate the vah~e thereof the federal supreme court has, [think. <br />2 <br />