New York § 12-A - 12-ACertain patents ratified and confirmed
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§ 12-A. 12-ACertain patents ratified and confirmed
§ 12-a. Certain patents ratified and confirmed. Patents of real property escheated to the state, granted before the sixteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, pursuant to resolutions of the commissioners of the land office, adopted under or in pursuance of chapter two hundred and seventy-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and ninety, have been ratified and confirmed unto the patentees therein, their heirs and assigns.
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