In any case where a purchase and payment in full has been made, and a conveyance or patent has been issued to any person or persons, signed by either the governor of the territory of Kansas or of the state of Kansas, for any tract or parcel of land embraced in any of the sections numbered sixteen or thirty-six, in the townships in this state, or any other lands confirmed to the state for any purpose whatever, and known as state lands, and which original conveyance or patent has been lost or misplaced, and does not appear of record in the state land office as provided by law, but does appear of record in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which such land described in such conveyance or patent is situated, a copy of the records of such conveyance or patent, duly certified by the register of deeds of such county to be true and correct, may be procured by any person claiming the title to such lands; and upon presentation of such certified copy to the register of the state land office, he or she shall thereupon duly record the same in the records of his or her office, and make the proper entry of such sale and conveyance, and shall enter on such certified copy of such conveyance or patent a marginal certificate of the book and page in which it is recorded, as is now provided by law in case of original patents; and such sale and conveyance is hereby confirmed, and made and declared to be in all respects as valid and binding, and the title to such lands vested, granted and conveyed as fully and completely as is now conveyed by original patent issued from the state land office, signed by the governor of the state, and recorded by the register in the state land office, as is now provided by law, subject only to prior rights accrued without notice.