Section 9-15-13

Acquisition of lands to which state entitled; recordation of same.

It shall be the duty of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to ascertain what, if any, lands the state or any institution thereof is entitled to which have not been received, allocated to or set aside to the state or such institution and to take immediate and appropriate action to acquire the same for the state or such institution as may be entitled to the same. Such lands, as well as any other lands acquired in any manner by the state or any institution thereof, shall be added to the record required in this article to be made as soon as such lands are acquired.

(Acts 1927, No. 635, p. 725, § 4; Code 1940, T. 8, §222.)