(a) The owner of any original or patent certificate for any seminary, saline, internal improvements, swamp and overflowed, real estate bank, or state bank lands, or the assignee or the parties in whom the legal title to the land exists, may present the certificate to the Commissioner of State Lands, who, if he or she finds that the sale of the land was made in conformity to law and that the land has been fully paid for, shall execute, under his or her hand and official seal, a deed conveying all rights, title, and interest of the state thereto.
(b) The seal of the Commissioner of State Lands shall be sufficient verification and authentication of the deed so made and shall entitle the deed to record, which shall be received as evidence in any court of this state.
(c) The original or patent certificates upon which deeds are made shall be filed in the Commissioner of State Lands' office, and the Commissioner of State Lands shall keep an abstract of the deeds so made, from which he or she may issue duplicates upon sufficient proof of the loss of original deeds.
(d) In all cases where sufficient proof is presented of the loss or destruction of any deeds made to any lands belonging to this state, by any officer authorized so to do, where evidence exists in the Commissioner of State Lands' office of the issuance of the former deeds, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of State Lands to issue duplicates or make new deeds therefor, as the case may be, referring therein to the deeds previously issued.
(e) The duplicates or new deeds shall have the like force and effect as the original deeds.