PUBLIC LANDS LAW (Provisions from the Code of Civil Procedure down to January 1, 1915, assigned to the Public Lands Law.) Public Lands Law An Act to amend chapter fifty of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled “An act relating to the public lands, constituting chapter forty-six of the Consolidated Laws." The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. The Public Lands Law is hereby amended by adding thereto the following article and section: ARTICLE 5 ESCHEATED LANDS §§ 70-109 Notice of action for escheated or forfeited § 70. In an action brought by the attorney-general to recover real property escheated or forfeited, the attorney-general must cause a notice, specifying the names of the parties, and the object of the action, and containing a brief description of the property affected land thereby, to be published in the newspaper printed at Albany, in which legal notices are required to be published, in a newspaper published in the city of New-York, and in a newspaper published in each county in which any part of the property is situated, at least once in each week, for twelve successive weeks, before an issue of fact, joined in the action, is brought to trial; or, where judgment is rendered therein in favor of the plaintiff, otherwise than upon the trial of an issue of fact, before final judgment is rendered. [Note 2401.] ARTICLE 9A Letters Patent § 109. The real property, granted by [those] letters-patent, Disposition of vacated or annulled in an action may thereafter be disposed of by real property the commissioners of the land office, as if the letters-patent had not when lettersbeen issued. [Note 2402.] patent vacated § 2. This act shall take effect September first, nineteen hundred Effect. and sixteen. |