2014 Indiana Code TITLE 34. CIVIL LAW AND PROCEDURE ARTICLE 41. EVIDENCE: REAL ESTATE RECORDS CHAPTER 7. WABASH AND ERIE CANAL CERTIFICATES AND DEEDS
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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.
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