Sec. 1.
When by any treaty or law of the United States it shall have been, or shall hereafter be required that permission or consent or approval of the United States be given to the lease, sale, alienation, or conveyance of any lands situate in this state, such permission, consent, or approval by the president of the United States to such sale, lease, alienation or conveyance, and the petition or prayer in writing soliciting that the consent, permission, or approval be made, may be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the lands or any of them may be situated; and the record or a transcript of the record, certified by the register in whose office the same may have been recorded, may be read in evidence in any court within this state without further proof thereof; but the effect of such evidence may be rebutted by other competent evidence.
History: 1873, Act 87, Imd. Eff. Apr. 15, 1873 ;-- How. 5220 ;-- CL 1897, 1271 ;-- CL 1915, 410 ;-- CL 1929, 5799 ;-- CL 1948, 322.111