Mich. Comp. Laws § 485.118

Sec. 18. Such company shall have a lien upon all logs, rafts, timber or lumber or other floatables driven, rafted or run through such stream or waters upon which toll shall be due, for such toll, and may sell a sufficient quantity of such logs, timber or lumber, or other floatables to satisfy said claim or demand, with the expense of such sale, at public auction on not less than 10 days' notice, either personally served upon such owner, or posted in 3 or more conspicuous places in the township where such logs are held, and in either case, by posting a like notice, also, in the office of such company, of the mark, description and supposed owner of such logs, timber or lumber, and the charges for which the same is to be sold.