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 evidencein all courts in Indiana in all cases in which, by law, duly made andcompleted deeds and records are legal evidence:
        (1) Certificates issued before March 7, 1903, by the generalland office and the United States Department of the Interiorsetting forth the list of lands in Indiana without the strip of five(5) miles on each side of the Wabash and Erie Canal, fromTerre Haute to Evansville, in the Vincennes land district,selected by the state of Indiana, under the Act of Congress ofMarch 3, 1845, 5 Stat. 731, to aid the state of Indiana inextending 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 commissionerof the department of administration after June 30, 1987).
        (3) All records of certified copies recorded in the recorder'soffice of any county in which the lands described in thedocuments are situated.
        (4) All certified copies made by the county recorder of therecord in the recorder's office.
    (b) The documents described in subsection (a) are conclusiveevidence 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 evidencein all courts in Indiana in all cases in which, by law, duly made andcompleted deeds and records are legal evidence:
        (1) The copies of all deeds on file on March 7, 1903, in theoffice of the auditor of state made by the board of trustees ofthe Wabash and Erie Canal, in records kept by such boards oftrustees and afterward filed in the land office division of thedepartment of administration.
        (2) All copies of deeds duly certified to by the auditor of state(or by the commissioner of the department of administrationafter June 30, 1987).
        (3) All records of certified copies recorded in the recorder'soffice in any county in which any of the lands described in thedocuments are situated.
        (4) All duly certified copies of any record described insubdivision (3) in the recorder's office.
    (b) The documents described in subsection (a) are conclusiveevidence 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 thecommissioner 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 anycounty in which the lands are situated. A record made as describedin this section has the same force and effect as other records dulyauthorized and made in a recorder's office.
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.37.