When real property shall have been transferred to the United States, subject to unpaid taxes, and the congress of the United States shall have enacted a law conferring jurisdiction on any court of competent jurisdiction to hear, determine and render judgment upon the claims of a board of county commissioners, the board of county commissioners of the county in which the real property transferred was located shall have the authority to bring suit in any court of competent jurisdiction for such delinquent taxes pursuant to the aforesaid act of congress.
K.S.A. 19-116