When it is sufficiently shown to the Governor and Secretary of State that any tax-forfeited or escheated lands owned by the state, whether within or without the corporate limits of any municipality if located within ten (10) miles thereof, are needed by any municipality in connection with any national defense project which such municipality is sponsoring, the Secretary of State with the approval of the Governor is hereby authorized to sell on an acreage basis any such lands so owned by the state to any municipality, without limit as to quantity or manner in which such land is subdivided, for such price as the Secretary of State with the approval of the Governor may fix. Provided, however, that the minimum price for such land shall be One Dollar ($1.00) per acre. The conveyance of such lands by the state shall be by patent executed by the Secretary of State under the seal of the land office, which patent shall contain all of the lands sold, and such patent shall convey to the municipality a fee simple title to the lands therein described.
In the event the price for which such land is sold is not sufficient to pay the fees and costs allowed to the county tax collector and chancery clerk, as in cases of the redemption of lands for tax sales, under the provisions of Section 25-7-21, Mississippi Code of 1972, the Secretary of State shall apportion the purchase money derived from the sale of such lands hereunder between the county tax collector and chancery clerk upon the basis of the amount of fees due each of them, and the sum thus allotted shall be paid in the manner provided in Section 29-1-95, Mississippi Code of 1972, and shall be in full settlement of all fees due such officers.
Municipalities buying lands hereunder shall not be required to file the application required by Section 29-1-37, Mississippi Code of 1972, and such application as the municipality may file to purchase land hereunder may be promptly acted upon by the Governor and Secretary of State.
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