The state comptroller is authorized to enter satisfaction of the mortgages executed to the state of Indiana to secure loans made by the agents of the state appointed in the several counties of the state to loan the surplus revenue funds deposited with the state by the government of the United States and apportioned to the several counties of the state, and now remaining unsatisfied upon the records in the recorders' offices of the several counties of the state.
IC 4-11-3-1