After the expiration of sixty days from the date of the first publication of the notice required by § 9-3A-5, the municipal authorities or judge shall proceed to award the lot or lots, parcel or parcels of land as provided in this chapter and for that purpose shall as soon as practicable and as near as practicable in the order of the time of filing the claimant’s statements, examine each and every claim, read proofs filed, and hear additional testimony if deemed advisable; and if the claim should be found to comply with the provisions of this chapter, and no adverse claim and notice of contest shall have been filed, the said municipal authorities or judge shall proceed forthwith to make such claimant or claimants a good and sufficient deed of conveyance for such lot or lots or parcels of land so claimed.

Source: SL 1881, ch 135, § 12; CL 1887, § 1179; RPolC 1903, § 1581; repealed by omission RC 1919; re–enacted SL 1971, ch 69, § 10.