§ 34-1-124 — Federal land office instruments; generally; railway maps and affidavits; recording and recording fees

Patents heretofore or hereafter issued by the United States, for
lands and certificates of purchase or payment for public lands,
heretofore or hereafter issued by the receiver of any land
office of the United States, shall be entitled to be recorded
under the provisions of this chapter, and the record of all such
instruments shall have the effect to all intents and purposes,
as though same were acknowledged and otherwise executed as
required by law; provided, that any railroad company, having a
right-of-way or station grounds, acquired in conformity to an
act of the congress of the United States, requiring a map
thereof, to be approved by the secretary of the interior, shall
file with the county clerk, of any county in this state, wherein
such right-of-way and station grounds may be, a copy of such
map, duly authenticated, together with the affidavit of any
officer or agent of such railroad company, describing by quarter
sections the lands within such county, affected by such right-
of-way, which were public lands when such map was approved, and
it shall be the duty of such county clerk to record said
affidavit, and file said map, and to note upon the abstract of
lands of his office as to each quarter section so described,
that a right-of-way across the same is claimed by the company
filing said map; provided, further, that the fee for filing said
map and recording said affidavit, shall be two dollars ($2.00).