Mich. Comp. Laws § 565.301
Land patents; recording; existing records; validation, use as evidence.
It shall be the duty of the registers of deeds, in the several counties of this state, to receive for record, and record all patents of lands, from the United States, or this state, or any copy thereof, duly certified by the commissioner of the United States general land office, or by the secretary of state of this sta…