CHAPTER 7. WABASH AND ERIE CANAL CERTIFICATES AND DEEDS - Indiana Statutes

IC 34-41-7
     Chapter 7. Wabash and Erie Canal Certificates and Deeds

IC 34-41-7-1
Admissibility of certificate or copies
     Sec. 1. (a) The following documents are admissible in evidence in all courts in Indiana in all cases in which, by law, duly made and completed deeds and records are legal evidence:
        (1) Certificates issued before March 7, 1903, by the general land office and the United States Department of the Interior setting forth the list of lands in Indiana without the strip of five (5) miles on each side of the Wabash and Erie Canal, from Terre Haute to Evansville, in the Vincennes land district, selected by the state of Indiana, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1845, 5 Stat. 731, to aid the state of Indiana in extending and completing the canal, on file on March 7, 1903, in the office of the auditor of state.
        (2) All copies of the certificates described in subdivision (1), duly certified to by the auditor of state, (or by the commissioner of the department of administration after June 30, 1987).
        (3) All records of certified copies recorded in the recorder's office of any county in which the lands described in the documents are situated.
        (4) All certified copies made by the county recorder of the record in the recorder's office.
    (b) The documents described in subsection (a) are conclusive evidence of all matters recited in those documents.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.37.

IC 34-41-7-2
Admissibility of deeds or copies
     Sec. 2. (a) The following documents are admissible in evidence in all courts in Indiana in all cases in which, by law, duly made and completed deeds and records are legal evidence:
        (1) The copies of all deeds on file on March 7, 1903, in the office of the auditor of state made by the board of trustees of the Wabash and Erie Canal, in records kept by such boards of trustees and afterward filed in the land office division of the department of administration.
        (2) All copies of deeds duly certified to by the auditor of state (or by the commissioner of the department of administration after June 30, 1987).
        (3) All records of certified copies recorded in the recorder's office in any county in which any of the lands described in the documents are situated.
        (4) All duly certified copies of any record described in subdivision (3) in the recorder's office.
    (b) The documents described in subsection (a) are conclusive evidence of all matters recited in those documents.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.37.
IC 34-41-7-3
Recording of certified copies
     Sec. 3. All copies duly certified by the auditor of state or the commissioner of the department of administration of:
        (1) the certificate and list referred to in section 1 of this chapter; and
        (2) the copies of deeds referred to in section 2 of this chapter;
shall, upon presentation, be recorded in the recorder's office of any county in which the lands are situated. A record made as described in this section has the same force and effect as other records duly authorized and made in a recorder's office.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.37.