The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be conveyed by quitclaim deed, without consideration, any title of the state of Kansas in any tract of land located in Atchison county or Doniphan county between the west Missouri river meander line established by the Kansas survey of 1872 and the east Missouri river meander line established by the Missouri survey of 1862 to the person or persons claiming such tract under color of title.
K.S.A. 82a-216