It shall be the duty of the surveyor-general to make out a list of all lands held by location, or any other office right, issued from the land department of this commonwealth, of every kind and description, upon which no patents have issued, designating the county in which such lands are situated, with such other descriptions of the same as the records of his office will enable him to give, including the names in which such locations or other office rights are entered, and surveys have been returned; and on the list being completed, or any part thereof, be transmitted to the prothonotary of the county in which such lands are situated.
64 P.S. § 461