Title 322, STATE LANDS

Sec. 3. At the time of the sale of any such lands, the commissioner shall make out and deliver to the purchaser or purchasers thereof a certificate in which the said commissioner shall, in the name of the people of this state, certify the description of land sold, the quantity th…

Sec. 4. The said certificate shall further set forth that in case of the non-payment of the interest due by the first day of March, or within 60 days thereafter, in each and every year, or of the taxes for the preceding year, within the time aforesaid, by the purchaser or purchas…

Sec. 5. Any purchaser of university or school lands, his heirs or assigns, who shall have paid, on or before the first day of March, 1842, a sum equal to 20 per cent of the purchase money on his certificate, together with the interest up to said day; and any person who shall have…

Sec. 6. In case of non-payment, either of principal or interest when due, according to the provisions of the preceding section, or according to the terms of the certificate of sale, as the case may be, such certificate shall become void and of no effect from the time of such fail…

Sec. 7. The said commissioner shall, whenever it satisfactorily appears that the chief value of any parcel of land consists of pine or other timber, and that in his opinion the interest of the state will not be secured by a compliance with the terms of payment prescribed in the s…

Sec. 8. The governor of the state shall sign and cause to be issued, patents for the lands described in any certificate of purchase whenever the same shall be presented to him, with the further certificate of the commissioner endorsed thereon, that the whole amount of principal a…

Sec. 9. The fee of each and every parcel of the said lands shall be and remain in the state until patents shall issue for the same respectively, upon full payment as aforesaid; and in case of a non-compliance by the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, with the terms of the certifica…

Sec. 10. In all cases where security has been taken from the purchaser, pursuant to the provisions of the seventh section of this chapter, the commissioner shall have power to sue for and recover all such sums as may become due and payable for which such security was given.

Sec. 11. All the improved portions of the university and school lands remaining unsold, shall be subject to sale at the respective prices at which they were severally offered at the last annual public sales, until the improvements on the same shall have been appraised as provided…

Sec. 12. Whenever either the university or school fund will, in the opinion of the commissioner, be improved by laying off any section or tract of university or school lands, into small parcels, or village lots, the said commissioner may cause the same to be done, and may sell th…

Sec. 13. Such freeholders shall be appointed by the commissioner, and after being first duly sworn so to do, shall appraise the several parcels or lots directed by said commissioner to be appraised by them, at their true value respectively, and shall make a return of such apprais…

Sec. 14. All parcels or lots so appraised, shall be subject to sale in the same manner and upon the same terms and conditions, and the certificates of purchase shall have the same effect, as in the case of other university or school lands, according to the provisions of this chap…

Sec. 15. The said commissioner may also, in his discretion, reserve and withhold from sale, such portions of the university and school lands as in his opinion it may not be advantageous to sell and dispose of, and for so long a time as in his opinion will be most beneficial to th…

Sec. 16. All university and school lands which have been or may be forfeited by the non-payment of either principal or interest, and which have not been offered at public auction after forfeiture, before the same shall be subject to private entry, shall be re-offered for sale at …

Sec. 17. The sale of such forfeited lands shall be held at such times and places as shall be designated in a notice containing a description of the lands so forfeited, which notice shall be published once in each week at least 4 weeks successively before the time of sale, in a ne…

Sec. 18. Certificates of purchase issued pursuant to the provisions of law, shall entitle the purchaser to the possession of the lands therein described, and shall be sufficient evidence of title to enable the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, to maintain actions of trespass for i…

Sec. 19. Any purchaser of university or school lands may pay to the state treasurer the amount due on his or her certificate of purchase, whether principal or interest, and for the amount so paid, the treasurer shall provide a receipt.

Sec. 20. In all cases where rights of a purchaser shall have become forfeited, under the provisions of this chapter, by his failure to pay the amount due upon his certificate of purchase, if such purchaser, his heirs or assigns shall, before the time appointed for the sale of the…

Sec. 21. On or before the first day of June in each year, the commissioner of the land office shall prepare and transmit to the clerks of the several counties in which the same are situated, lists of all the forfeited lands in the several townships therein, and of all the unsold …

Sec. 22. Every supervisor of a township, upon receiving the lists and forms as aforesaid, shall proceed to estimate and appraise the value of all the improvements upon the several tracts or parcels of land mentioned in such lists, and after making such appraisement according to t…

Sec. 23. On the return of such appraisement, the amount of the appraised value of improvements on each tract or parcel shall be divided by the number of acres contained therein, and the result, together with the minimum price per acre of unimproved lands of the same description a…

Sec. 24. The unimproved forfeited lands shall continue at the minimum price per acre of unsold and unimproved lands, as established in this chapter.

Sec. 25. The commissioner of the land office may, from time to time lease, for terms not exceeding 1 year, and until the same are disposed of according to law, all such university and school lands, and other lands belonging to the state, as shall have improvements on them; and su…

Sec. 27. Whenever it shall appear to the commissioner necessary, in order to ascertain the true boundaries of any tract or portion of the lands mentioned in this chapter, or to enable him to describe and dispose of the same, in suitable and convenient lots, he may cause all such …

Sec. 49. The commissioner of the land office shall have the custody of all books and papers relating to any of the public lands mentioned in this chapter, except such as properly belong to the records or files of other offices.

Sec. 51. The said commissioner shall, on or before the third Monday in March in each year, transmit to the treasurer of each county in which any of the lands mentioned in this chapter may have been sold during the year then next preceding, a description of each parcel of the land…

Sec. 52. Whenever the commissioner shall lay off any tract of land into small parcels or village lots, as provided in this chapter, he shall cause a correct map of the same to be entered of record in the county where said lands may be situated; and all parcels or lots heretofore …

Sec. 53. The several county treasurers receiving such descriptions shall, on or before the first Monday of April, deliver to the supervisor of each township in which any of such lands are situated, a description of such lands therein, with the names of the purchasers of the same.

Sec. 54. The registers of deeds of the several counties are authorized to record all patents issued by the governor pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, and the record thereof shall have the same effect as the record of other conveyances executed according to the laws of t…

Sec. 55. The necessary incidental expenses of the land office shall be paid out of the several funds, respectively, in relation to which they were incurred, and upon the presentation of satisfactory vouchers therefor to the board of state auditors, shall be allowed by them at the…

Sec. 56. In case of any sale made by mistake, or not in accordance with law, or obtained by fraud, the same shall be void; and no certificate of purchase issued thereon shall be of any effect, but the holder of any such certificate shall be required to surrender the same to the c…

Sec. 57. The legal assignees of all bona fide purchasers of any of the lands mentioned in this chapter, shall be subject to, and governed by, the provisions of law applicable to the respective purchasers of whom they are the assignees, and they shall have the same rights in all r…

Sec. 58. All sales of lands by the commissioner, shall be made according to the subdivisions thereof by the United States surveys, unless the same shall have been laid off into smaller lots as provided in this chapter, or unless in the opinion of the commissioner any of said land…

Sec. 59. When an original certificate of purchase shall have been issued by the commissioner for 40 acres or more of the said lands, he may in his discretion, upon the surrender of such certificate, and the payment of 1 dollar for each new certificate requested, issue new certifi…

Sec. 68. All treasury notes or warrants bearing interest, drawn by authority of law on the treasurer of this state, shall be received in payment of principal for any of the university lands which have been heretofore sold or which may hereafter be sold, and which have not once be…

Sec. 69. The whole amount of such notes and warrants which may be received under the provisions of the preceding section, shall not exceed the residue of the sum of 100,000 dollars which shall remain after deducting the full amount of all sums which shall have been credited to th…

Sec. 71. From the date of each and every such credit, the university fund shall be relieved from the payment of interest on an amount of the said “Michigan university state stock,” equal to the amount of such credit; and when the amount of said “Michigan university state stock” s…

Sec. 72. The seal of the land office affixed to any certificate of purchase, receipt or other instrument issued by the commissioner of the land office, according to the provisions of this chapter, shall be prima facie evidence of the due execution of such certificate.

Sec. 1. That all deeds of conveyance to the state of any lands situated in this state or elsewhere, shall be recorded in the counties where the lands lie, and shall be duly registered and kept in the office of secretary of state of this state.

Sec. 2. All confirmations of university locations, of school lands for filling up fractional sections of state lands of every description that may require confirmations, and sections for salt springs and the use of salt springs, shall be also kept and recorded in the office of se…

Sec. 3. All acts and parts of acts by which any grants of lands have been, or hereafter may be made to this state, shall be collected and recorded in the record book aforesaid.

Sec. 4. All other evidences of title, by which this state holds any lands shall be in like manner recorded in the office of the secretary of state, so that his office shall contain the whole collection of all the land titles of the state of Michigan.

Sec. 5. When the titles aforesaid are fully collected and arranged, the secretary of state shall cause the same to be platted in such a manner as to show them accurately and distinctly on such plats.

Sec. 6. All new locations of state lands, for any purpose, shall be immediately entered of record and platted as aforesaid.

Sec. 1. If the department of natural resources has executed and issued a deed that purports to convey title to lands in which this state held no interest, the deed has been recorded in the office of the register of deeds for the county in which the lands are located, and, in an a…

Sec. 1. That all lands of this state, which have been withdrawn from market for any purpose, or withheld from sale or pre-emption, in consequence of errors in books, or in consequence of marking sales or reservations upon maps, and all lands which have reverted, or may hereafter …