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APPENDIX 8. 



DRAFT OF STATUTES PROPOSED FOR IMMEDIATE ADOPTION TO CARRY INTO EFFECT 

 THE GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE COMMISSION OF INQUIRY. 



Proposed Statute for Utilisation of the Tax Larvd. for State Forest Re- 

 serves, for Private Timber Reserves and for Settlement. 



The People of the State of Michigan enact: 



Section 1. This act shall not extend to or include any land situated 

 within the limits of any city or village, or any land situated in the 

 platted portion of any township within one mile of the corporate limits 

 of any city or village; provided, that no State forest reserve created by 

 the operation of this act shall be affected by the subsequent incorpora- 

 tion of a city or village. Except as aforesaid, this act shall extend 

 to and include all State tax land nojv subject, or which shall hereafter 

 become subject, to purchase upon the records in the Auditor General's 

 department, and which shall have been bid in to the State at one or more 

 tax sales, and shall not have been redeemed or purchased within the 

 year after the tax sale allowed by law for redemption, and which shall, 

 according to said records, be delinquent for taxes for five or more years : 

 provided, however, that any disposition thereof made hereby, or in pur- 

 suance of the terms hereof, shall be subject to any lawful action that 

 may thereafter be taken upon any application, made within the year of 

 redemption aforesaid, to pay the taxes or redeem the said land; and 

 shall be subject to any decree or judgment that may be rendered in any 

 suit or proceeding, commenced within the time allowed therefor by 

 law, to set aside the taxes or remove the cloud on title occasioned , 

 thereby. This act shall, except as aforesaid, extend to and include all 

 the tax homestead land not heretofore disposed of, and all tax home- 

 stead land heretofore disposed of, but which shall revert to the State 

 for non-compliance with the terms of entry or sale. All State land in- 

 cluded within the operation of this section is hereby withdrawn and 

 reserved from sale, entry or other disposition except as hereinafter 

 provided. 



Section 2. All State tax land which under the terms of section one, 

 is now, or shall hereafter come, within the operation of this act shall be 

 deemed to be abandoned, and the title of the State thereto shall be 

 deemed to be absolute and indefeasible; and the Auditor General shall 

 forthwith deed the same to the State of Michigan as to an individual, 

 and deliver the deeds thereof to the Commissioner of the State Land 

 OflSce, who, after causing the same to be recorded in the proper register 

 of deeds office, shall keep the same on file in his office. The records 

 aforesaid in the Auditor General's department showing such facts as 

 bring any land within the operation of this act and the said deeds, or 

 either of them; or certified copies thereof, shall, in all cases, be sufficient 

 proof of such abandonment and of the title of the State; and shall be 

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