RS 1611 - Retention instead of sale; administration
In all cases where the state succeeds to the immovable property of vacant successions, and it shall appear to be advantageous to the state, as determined by the governor, the attorney general, and the executive counsel, or any two of them, for the state to retain the ownership of the property, rather than for the sale thereof to be provoked, these officers, or any two of them, may provide for the administration of the property, upon such terms and conditions as, in their opinion, are in the best interests of the state.