Arkansas Code Title 22. Public Property § 22-6-105. Certificate of purchase--Deed execution

(a) The owner of any certificate of purchase for any swamp and overflowed, seminary, saline, internal improvement, real estate bank, or state bank lands, or the assignee or the party in whom the legal title to the lands exist, may present the certificates and other evidences of the legal title to the lands to the Commissioner of State Lands. If the Commissioner of State Lands finds that the sale of the lands was in conformity to law, the lands have been fully paid for, and the evidences of assignment have been made in accordance with law, he or she shall execute, under his or her hand and official seal, a deed conveying all the right, title, and interest of the state in and to the lands.

(b) The deed of the state shall not be issued to any approved swamp and overflowed lands until after the issuance of the patent by the United States to the state for the lands.