School fund mortgages; counties; settlement of claim

Sec. 3. If: (1) a person has purchased and been granted a deed of conveyance to any lands sold for delinquent taxes by the county treasurer of any county; (2) at the time when the lands were sold, there was an unpaid school loan, secured by mortgage, on the lands, and the mortgage was foreclosed by the county after the sale; and (3) through the foreclosure proceedings, the county acquired title to the lands; the board of commissioners of the county in which the lands are situated may pay to the person who holds the tax deed to the lands any sum that may be agreed upon, not exceeding the amount that the purchaser paid for the lands at the tax sale, together with an amount equal to any taxes that the purchaser of the lands paid, not including any interest, on the condition that the holder of the tax deed to the lands execute to the board of commissioners of the county a quitclaim deed to the lands. All expenditures authorized under this section shall be paid out of the county general fund without any appropriation being made for the expenditure.