2006 New York Code - Issue Of Patents.

 
    § 36. Issue  of  patents.    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.