[Numbering and dating applications upon receipt.]

All applications shall be stamped immediately upon their receipt by the land office with ink or with some device indicating correctly the date, hour and minute of such receipt, and such applications shall have stamped thereon a serial number in the order of their receipt. History: Laws 1921, ch. 174, § 2; C.S. 1929, § 111-302; 1941 Comp., § 8-803; 1953 Comp., § 7-8-3.