Minnesota Session Laws - 1987, Regular Session

  

                         Laws of Minnesota 1987 

                         CHAPTER 17-H.F.No. 166 
           An act relating to real property; authorizing 
          conveyance of state interest in certain land in St. 
          Louis county. 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
    Section 1.  [CONVEYANCE OF INTEREST IN CERTAIN LAND.] 
    Notwithstanding Minnesota Statutes, sections 94.09 to 
94.16, section 282.018, or other law, the commissioner of 
revenue shall convey the state's interest, except its interest 
in mineral rights reserved under section 94.14, in certain land 
to Joseph W. and Nancy L. Gilbert of Ely, Minnesota in 
accordance with this section before July 1, 1987. 
    The state's interest in the land described in this section 
must be conveyed for a consideration of $1.  The conveyance must 
be by issuance of a quitclaim deed or other form approved by the 
attorney general. 
    The land in which the state's interest must be conveyed is 
that part of government lot 5, section 19, township 63 north, 
range 12 west, described as follows: 
 Assuming the north boundary line of said government 
lot 5 to lie due east and west and from the northeast 
corner of said government lot 5 run due west along said 
north boundary line a distance of 850.00 feet to the point 
of beginning; thence continue along said north boundary 
line a distance of 140.69 feet thence run south 02 degrees 
01' 30" east a distance of 646.00 feet more or less to the 
shore of Shagawa Lake; thence run easterly along the 
shoreline a distance of 115.00 feet more or less to a point 
which lies due south of the point of beginning; thence run 
due north a distance of 590.00 feet more or less back to 
the point of beginning.  Said tract contains 1.72 acres, 
more or less. 
    This land is part of a tract of land described in an 
abstract entry in 1901 as an Assignment of Forfeited Sale to the 
state.  Although appropriate records do not show that the land 
was subsequently reconveyed, the parcel, according to St. Louis 
county records, was back on the tax rolls by 1925, which is as 
far back as the county tax records for that parcel extend; the 
department of revenue has not found any evidence that either a 
state assignment certificate or a conveyance of forfeited lands 
covering this tract of land was ever issued; the state has not 
shown an interest in the property in that time; and various 
owners since 1901 have paid taxes on the property.  The 
conveyance is merited to extinguish the state's interest and to 
quiet title to the property. 
    Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
    Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment. 
    Approved April 7, 1987