N.Y. Public Lands Law § 36: Issue of patents

§ 36. Issue of patents. On the production to the commissioner of

general services by the purchaser, his representative or assignee of any

certificate heretofore issued by the state engineer and a receipt

showing payment to the state of the whole of the purchase-money, the

purchaser's bond on such sale shall be cancelled by the state department

having custody of such bond and such commissioner shall deliver letters

patent for the lands sold to the person entitled thereto. If such

certificate be lost or wrongfully withheld by any person from the owner

thereof, such commissioner may receive evidence of such loss or wrongful

detention, and issue a patent to the person who, on satisfactory proof,

appears to him to be entitled thereto.