§ 12-a. Certain patents ratified and confirmed. Patents of real
property escheated to the state, granted before the sixteenth day of
May, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, pursuant to resolutions of the
commissioners of the land office, adopted under or in pursuance of
chapter two hundred and seventy-nine of the laws of eighteen hundred and
ninety, have been ratified and confirmed unto the patentees therein,
their heirs and assigns.