§ 36-9-111 — Certificate of purchase; loss or wrongful detention

Whenever a certificate of purchase shall be lost, or wrongfully
withheld from the owner thereof, the board may receive evidence
of such loss or wrongful detention, and upon satisfactory proof
of this fact, and such indemnity therefor as the board may
prescribe, it may cause a new certificate of purchase or patent,
as the case may be, to be issued to such person as shall appear
to it to be the proprietor of the land described in the original
certificate of purchase.