Michigan · statute · 21 of 1873, Mich. Comp. Laws · 5 active provisions
That all lands of this state, which have been withdrawn from market for any purpose, or withheld from sale or pre-emption, in consequence of errors in books, or in consequence of marking sales or reservations upon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 revert, to the state by reason of a failure in a…
The director of conservation shall be required to publish a notice of the restoration of such lands to market at least once in a newspaper published in the county where such lands are situated, if there be one published therein, and if not, then in some newspaper published in a county nearest to that in which said land…
In all cases where there are 2 or more applicants for the same tract of land present at the time of its restoration to market, said tract shall be offered in the smallest subdivision of which the same is susceptible, not less than 40 acres (unless the tract should be a fractional section or fractional part of a section…
All entries or sales of any lands, such as are hereinbefore referred to, or of lands now held in trust by the state, which may hereafter become the property of the state by virtue of any of the provisions of such trust, if such entries or sales be permitted, or made, in violation of any of the provisions of this act sh…
This act does not apply to the sale of surplus land pursuant to the land exchange facilitation fund act.