The Secretary of State with the approval of the Governor may contract to sell any state forfeited tax lands, including state lands lying within municipalities, even though said lands may have been subdivided into blocks, lots, divisions, or otherwise and sold to the state by such descriptions. The purchase price required in the contract for the sale of state forfeited tax land shall be the same as that required in direct sale of state forfeited tax lands. In the event the Secretary of State with the approval of the governor shall decide that any state forfeited tax land shall be contracted for sale, the Secretary of State with the approval of the governor shall fix a price for the sale of such lands. Said contract for the sale of such lands shall provide that a part of the purchase price shall be paid in cash, and that the balance of such purchase price shall be paid in equal annual installments extending over a period not to exceed five (5) years, said period to be fixed by the Secretary of State. The purchaser in said contract of sale shall agree that he shall pay all installments of the purchase price and all taxes and special assessments that may become due on said lands during the continuance or life of said contract, that he shall not cut any merchantable timber nor commit any waste of any kind on said land without the written permission of the Secretary of State and that he shall not allow any other person to cut any merchantable timber therefrom or permit any waste of any kind thereon until said purchaser has secured a patent from the state in accordance with his contract of sale. Contracts for sale of state forfeited tax lands shall not be transferred nor assigned without the written consent of the Secretary of State. All applications for contracts of sale shall be made on written forms prepared by the attorney general and approved by the Secretary of State and shall be kept on file in the office of the Secretary of State as public records. At such time as the purchaser shall have paid the entire purchase money under any contract of sale and shall have complied with all of the other provisions of said contract of sale, the Secretary of State shall issue a state land patent as in other cases of the sale of state lands.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property
§ 29-1-5. Value of state lands
§ 29-1-7. Suits for or on behalf of public lands
§ 29-1-9. Suits for recovery of lands
§ 29-1-11. Fraudulent purchases declared void
§ 29-1-13. Private claims to lands
§ 29-1-15. Counties and municipalities may grant lands to state
§ 29-1-17. Protection of public lands from trespass
§ 29-1-19. Damages for trespass
§ 29-1-21. Record of tax lands
§ 29-1-25. Lands acquired through error
§ 29-1-27. Lands mistakenly claimed by state stricken from tax list
§ 29-1-29. Lands mistakenly sold to state may be stricken
§ 29-1-31. Void tax sales stricken
§ 29-1-33. Sale price of tax lands
§ 29-1-37. Application to purchase tax lands
§ 29-1-39. Contract for sale of tax lands
§ 29-1-41. Unlawful to cut timber until purchase price is paid
§ 29-1-43. Lands under contract for sale taxable
§ 29-1-45. Cancellation of contract of sale
§ 29-1-47. Purchase price forfeited
§ 29-1-49. Tax land may be sold to drainage district
§ 29-1-51. Tax land may be sold to municipality
§ 29-1-53. Sale of tax; forfeited improvements
§ 29-1-55. Sale of tax-forfeited timber
§ 29-1-59. Sale price of swamp and overflowed lands
§ 29-1-61. Sale price of internal improvement lands
§ 29-1-63. Sale price of Chickasaw school lands
§ 29-1-67. Sale of lands in municipalities
§ 29-1-69. Sale of certain lands sold by municipalities
§ 29-1-71. Sale of lands for municipal defense projects
§ 29-1-73. Quantity purchased by one person
§ 29-1-77. Sale or lease to highway commission
§ 29-1-79. How purchase money paid
§ 29-1-83. Land sold by the state to be assessed for taxes
§ 29-1-85. Failure of title to public lands
§ 29-1-89. Certain entries cancelled
§ 29-1-91. Taxes remain a charge on redeemed land
§ 29-1-93. Fees of county officers
§ 29-1-97. Lien of drainage district or municipality not abated
§ 29-1-99. Easements for flood control, etc.
§ 29-1-101. Easements for pipe lines
§ 29-1-103. Liability for damages in construction of pipe lines
§ 29-1-105. Restrictions on construction or use of pipe lines
§ 29-1-107. Leasing or renting of surface and submerged lands
§ 29-1-109. Fees or commissions prohibited for collecting rent on state-owned property
§ 29-1-111. Duplicate of conveyance issued
§ 29-1-113. Presumption of patent in absence of record
§ 29-1-115. Presumption of validity of patents of forfeited tax land
§ 29-1-117. Titles and claims vacated and relinquished
§ 29-1-119. Patents to issue in certain cases
§ 29-1-121. Agent to collect fund due state
§ 29-1-123. Lists of tax lands prepared; copies to counties
§ 29-1-125. Collection of sums due state arising from mineral interests
§ 29-1-129. Accounting for and disposition of monies collected or received
§ 29-1-131. Powers and duties of Department of Revenue
§ 29-1-133. Information to be furnished to State Tax Commission
§ 29-1-137. Powers and duties of Attorney General
§ 29-1-139. Agents of Department of Revenue
§ 29-1-141. Interest on unpaid sums
§ 29-1-143. Jurisdiction of chancery court
§ 29-1-147. Relinquishment by state of claims for certain forfeited tax lands
§ 29-1-149. Report of transactions for all conveyances of real property