Sec. 23.052.  SURVEYS ON WHICH PATENTS ARE TO BE OBTAINED.  The county surveyor shall:
(1)  receive and examine all field notes of surveys made in the county on which patents are to be obtained;
(2)  certify to the same according to law;  and
(3)  record the field notes in a book to be kept by him for that purpose.
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2368, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.