Section 36. Issue of patents  


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  • 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.