(a) All sales of lands formerly owned by the State of Arkansas conducted pursuant to the decrees of the Pulaski County Chancery Court in favor of the State of Arkansas, condemning the lands for sale to pay the unpaid purchase price thereof, which sales were held and conducted by the commissioner of the court in substantial conformity to the decrees, were reported to and were approved and confirmed by the court, and were made for a price payable in Arkansas levee bonds to May 1, 1878, are ratified and confirmed and made valid as if the lands had been paid for in valid funds.
(b) When the owner and occupant of any of the lands shall present to the Commissioner of State Lands a duly certified copy of the proceedings of the court affecting the lands claimed by him or her and showing that the land was sold prior to May 1, 1878, and paid for in Arkansas levee bonds and that the sale was approved and confirmed by the court, and when the owner shall file a petition with the Commissioner of State Lands setting forth the evidence of his or her title, showing title derived by him or her from the purchaser at the sale so held under decree of the court prior to May 1, 1878, and showing that the claimant and those under whom he or she claims title have continuously paid taxes on the lands for at least seven (7) years immediately preceding the filing of the petition, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of State Lands to execute to the record owner a deed in the name of the State of Arkansas, quieting all the right, title, and claim of the State of Arkansas in the land claimed and held by each owner.
Structure Arkansas Code
Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 22-6-101. Record of land sales
§ 22-6-102. Correction of errors growing out of erroneous sales
§ 22-6-103. Issuance of replacement certificates of purchase
§ 22-6-104. Execution of deed on original or patent certificate
§ 22-6-105. Execution of deed on certificate of purchase
§ 22-6-106. Issuance of deed on proof of payment
§ 22-6-107. Deeds to school lands sold prior to 1881
§ 22-6-108. Seal of Commissioner of State Lands sufficient verification
§ 22-6-109. Cancellation of deed upon dishonor of check
§ 22-6-110. Confirmation of sales of lands paid for with levee bonds
§ 22-6-111. Price of swamp, internal improvement, seminary, saline, or school lands — Exemptions
§ 22-6-112. Preference to war veterans in sale of agricultural land
§ 22-6-113. State's retention of mineral interest — Exemption
§ 22-6-115. Prohibited acts of county officials affecting title
§ 22-6-116. Certificates by county collectors correcting or cancelling original certificates
§ 22-6-117. Report to Legislative Council — Definition
§ 22-6-118. Exemptions from § 22-6-117 requirement