The land commissioner may prosecute suits in the name of the state, concerning the public lands, through the attorney general, a district attorney, or some attorney at law employed by him for that purpose, with the consent of the governor.Codes, 1892, § 2565; 1906, § 2903; Hemingway's 1917, § 5238; 1930, § 6019; 1942, § 4101.
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