DIRECTOR OF LANDS HAS CONTINUING AUTHORITY TO INVESTIGATE FRAUDULENT ISSUANCE OF PATENTS

> It is not only the right but also the duty of the Director of Lands to conduct the investigation of any alleged fraud in securing the free patent and the corresponding title to a public land and to file the corresponding court action for the reversion of the same to the State, if the facts disclosed in the course of such investigation should so warrant

> The indefeasibility of title over land previously public is not a bar to an investigation by the Director of Lands as to how such title has been acquired, if the purpose of such investigation is to determine whether or not fraud had been committed in securing such title in order that that the appropriate action for reversion may be filed by the government