Section 11. Power to confirm defective grant

Whenever a sale is lawfully
  made, or directed to be made by the commissioner of general services, or
  has been made by his predecessor, the board of commissioners of the land
  office, including a sale of land under water, if, at  the  time  of  the
  making  of  the  grant,  the  necessary  jurisdictional facts existed to
  authorize the grant, and by reason of accidental  omission  or  manifest
  error,  the  patent  is  not  acutally issued, or has been issued to the
  applicant deficient or manifestly erroneous in description or otherwise,
  the commissioner may, in his discretion, and on such terms  as  seem  to
  him proper, cause to be issued to such applicant, or to persons deriving
  claim  or  title  from  him  subsequently  to the making of the grant, a
  release or confirmatory grant of such lands or any parts thereof,  which
  release  or  confirmatory  grant shall vest in the grantee therein named
  such right and estate, to the extent of the right or title of the  state
  in such lands, or parts thereof, as is therein named.