An Act to amend an act to provide for the removal of the State Land Office to the seat of government, and to revive certain laws relative to the same. 1 [Approved April 1, 1850. Laws of 1850, p. 216.] No. 28 of 1849, established. (3800.) SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Section 5 of Act Representatives of the State of Michigan, That section five of an repealed. act to provide for the removal of the State Land Office to the seat of government, approved March thirty-one, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, be and the same is hereby repealed; and the office Land Office redenominated "The Land Office of the State of Michigan," in the act entitled "An act to organize a Land Office and to regulate the sale of the public lands," approved March six, eighteen hundred and forty-three,' be and the same is hereby re-established, the chief officer of which shall be called the Commissioner of the Land Office, as provided for in said last-mentioned act. (3801.) SEC. 2. All the laws relative to the State Land Office Acts revived. which were in force at the time when the act to which this is amendatory took effect, not contravening the provisions of this act, or the act to which this is amendatory, are hereby revived, and shall be, after the passage of this act, in full force. SEC. 3.3 SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. An Act to revise an act entitled "An act to provide for the removal of the State Land [Approved February 13, 1855. Laws of 1855, p. 349.] at Lansing. (3082.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, office to remain That the State Land Office shall be and remain where now established, at Lansing. quired of Com (3803.) SEC. 2. No official bond shall hereafter be required of No bond rethe Commissioner of the State Land Office, and all moneys here- missioner. tofore required to be received by him, shall hereafter be received State Treasurer by the State Treasurer (except as herein provided), who shall in eys. all cases give receipts for the same, which receipts shall be countersigned by the Auditor General, as in other cases. to receive mon penses of office, (3804.) SEC. 3. All accounts for the incidental expenses of said Accounts for exoffice, for surveys of lands, for necessary maps, plats, or charts, etc., to be au improvements at Lansing, and all other accounts and charges here- Auditors upon tofore allowed and paid by the Commissioner, shall hereafter be Commissioner. 1 See the act next following, which revives the act here amended. 2 The act of March 6, 1843, was repealed by the Revised Statutes of 1946. 3 Repealed by section 12 of the Act of February 18, 1855, following. dited by State certificate of Purchasers of trust fund, etc, Treasurer to give receipts audited by the Board of State Auditors, on the certificate of the Commissioner, and when so audited and allowed, shall be paid. from the State Treasury, on the warrant of the Auditor General, drawn against the proper fund. (3805.) SEC. 4. The purchasers of any of the trust fund or lands may pay to swamp lands, their assignees, agents, or attorneys, may pay to the county treasurer treasurer of the county in which such lands may lie, any amount which may be due from time to time, on their several certificates, either for principal, interest, or penalty; and for the amount so paid the said county treasurer shall give to such person his receipt, specifying, etc. specifying the amount paid, date of payment, whether for principal, interest, or penalty, or either, and the amount of each, the number of the certificate on which the same was paid, and the name of the original purchaser of the land, and the fund to which the same belongs, which receipt shall be countersigned by the clerk of the county, and when so given and countersigned shall have the some force and effect as if given by the State Treasurer: Provided, That no payments may be made to, nor any money received by any of the said county treasurers, after the first day of September in each year; but said purchasers shall be permitted to pay such moneys to the Commissioner of the State Land Office, at any time prior to the sale of said lands upon forfeiture, as provided County clerk to countersign; force and effect of same. Proviso. Bond to the Sureties, how approved. Duplicate receipts to be made. One to be deposited with county clerk. Duty of county clerk with respect thereto. by law.1 (3806.) SEC. 5. Before any county treasurer shall receive moneys authorized to be paid to him by the preceding section, he shall execute and give to the State a bond, with good and sufficient sureties, in the amount to be fixed by the Commissioner of the State Land Office, which bond shall be conditioned for the honest and faithful discharge of all trusts and responsibilities imposed by this act, the sureties to be approved by the judge of probate and register of deeds of their respective counties. 2 (3807.) SEC. 6. That the said county treasurer shall, in each and every case, issue duplicate receipts for all moneys received by him under the provisions of this act, one of which he shall, without delay, deposit with the county clerk. (3808.) SEC. 7. The county clerk, on receiving any such duplicate receipts, shall note on the back of each the date of receiving the same, and shall also enter in a book to be procured by him at the expense of the county, the amount for which each of such 1 As amended by Act 85 of the Laws of 1869, p. 150, approved March 30, 1869. 2 As amended by Act 55 of the Laws of 1861, p. 48, approved and took effect February 16, 1861. receipts was given, and whether the same was for principal, interest, or penalty, or either, specifying the amount of each, the number of the certificate on which the same was paid, the name of the person to whom the same was issued, the name of the fund to which the money belonged, and the date of each receipt; and on the first Monday in each and every month, the said clerk shall carefully inclose and forward all such duplicate receipts to the Commissioner of the State Land Office, as he shall direct. bonds. (3809.) SEC. 8. The Commissioner of the State Land Office shall, Treasurer's on or before the fifth day of January of each year, transmit to each county treasurer to whom money may be paid under this act, a blank bond with the penal sum fixed as provided by the fifth section of this act, which bond the said treasurer shall execute and procure to be approved as heretofore provided, and return the same on or before the first day of February following, to the said commissioner, who shall file and carefully preserve the same in his office.1 moneys due, by Commission treasurer, with blanks. (3810.) SEC. 9. On or before the first day of March, in each and Statement of every year, the Commissioner shall cause to be made out, and shall etc., to be sent transmit to such county treasurers as have filed their bonds with er to county him, properly executed and approved, a statement showing the instructions and classes of lands sold in that county, the number of the certificate of purchase, the name of the person to whom each certificate was issued, and the amount of both principal and interest due on each, on the first day of March; and the said Commissioner shall also transmit such directions and instructions and blanks as shall enable the said county treasurers to carry out the provisions of this act. er to pay over moneys to State Treasurer. 19 Mich. 203. (3811.) SEC. 10. All moneys received by the county treasurers County treasurunder the provisions of this act shall be held, at all times, subject to the order and direction of the State Treasurer, for the benefit of the funds to which such moneys respectively belong; and on the first day of May in each year, and at such other times as he may be required so to do by the said State Treasurer, each county treasurer shall pay over to the State Treasurer all moneys he may have received on account of such funds. of county treas. urer for recelying moneys. (3812.) SEC. 11. The several county treasurers who receive money Compensation under the provisions of this act are hereby authorized to charge each person to whom they may give a receipt, or of whom they may receive money, cent on the amount they may receive two per 1 As amended by Act 222 of the Laws of 1859, p. 855, approved and took effect February 15, 1859. Certain enactments repealed. 1849, p. 268. 1850, p. 216. from each person, which shall be in full for all services rendered under this act. (3813.) SEC. 12. Act number two hundred and seventeen, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, entitled " An act to provide for the removal of the State Land Office to the seat of government," and section three of act number two hundred and fourteen, approved April first, eighteen hundred and fifty, entitled "An act to amend an act to provide for the removal of the State Land Office to the seat of government, and to revive certain laws relative to the same," are hereby repealed. This act shall take immediate effect, except the ninth section thereof. Certified copies by Commission Office. evidence. An Act to authorize and require the Commissioner of the Land Office to furnish certified copies of field notes, maps, records, and other papers pertaining to land titles, and to declare the effect thereof as evidence in suits at law or equity. [Approved March 23, 1869. Laws of 1869, p. 112.] (3814.) SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, er of State Land That the Commissioner of the State Land office is hereby authorized and required, on application of any person, and on payment by such person of the fees allowed by law, to make and deliver to such person a true copy of any field notes, maps, records, or papers in his office appertaining to land titles, or to the original surveys Effect of same in of any of the lands in this State; and any such copy, when duly certified to by such Commissioner, under his seal of office, or the record thereof, when duly recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the proper county, may be admitted in evidence in all courts and places in which the title or boundary of any land shall come in question, and shall have the same force and effect, as evidence, as though the act of Congress approved June twelfth, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, entitled "An act for the discontinuance of the office of Surveyor General in the several districts, so soon as the surveys therein can be completed, for abolishing land offices under certain circumstances, and for other purposes," had named the Commissioner of the State Land Office of the respective States, instead of the Secretary of State of the respective States, as the officer to whom the Surveyor General should deliver over all the field notes, maps, records, and other papers appertaining to land titles, as in and by said act provided. Rate of charges for copies, etc. (3815.) SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the following schedule of prices and charges shall be observed in the State Land Office, to wit: For field and meander notes, per township, eight dollars; For field, etc., notes. Official certifi cate. For township plats, showing vacant State lands only, each Town plats. twenty-five cents; For township plats, showing vacant State lands and streams, Ibid. fifty cents; For township plats, showing vacant State lands and streams, Ibid. together with names of purchasers, one dollar and fifty cents; For copies of all records and papers which the Commissioner Records. may be required to furnish by law, for each one hundred words, fifteen cents; For tax statements, on each description of land, per year, cents. six Statements. (3816.) SEC. 3. The fees received for all services under this act Fees paid into shall be paid into the State Treasury, and credited to the general fund. SEC. 4. This act shall take immediate effect. State Treasury. of university to be first offered (3817.) SECTION 1. The minimum price of the unsold and unim- Minimum price proved university lands shall be twelve dollars per acre, and the and school lands; minimum price of the unsold and unimproved school lands shall at public auction be four dollars per acre; but no such lands shall be otherwise sold until they shall once have been offered for sale at public auction, and no such lands shall be sold for less than the aforesaid prices 1844, p. 82, etc. |