Register of licenses for swamplands, 1873-1916.

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Register of licenses for swamplands, 1873-1916.

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Volume 3 of record group 57-31 consists of government records (1873-1916) documenting people who bought swamp land from the state of Michigan pursuant to Public Act 229 of 1859. The records are from the Michigan State Land Office. Data includes date license issued, license number, name of person who settled the public land, basic legal description of the land (township, range section), county, and final disposition of land (whether surrendered, abandoned or kept). Primarily documents northern counties of the Lower Peninsula.

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Michigan. State Land Office

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The State Land Office Board was created by Public Act 155 of 1937. It was to consist of two members appointed by the governor, and the auditor general, who was member and chairman. All land, the title of which was vested in the state by virtue of any tax sale, was to be under the control and jurisdiction of the Board, providing the property was south of a line that approximately ran from Saginaw Bay to Muskegon. All transactions incident to the redemption, sale, transfer, and recording title to ...

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