Whenever any sale of lands or interest therein shall be sold at public auction, it is not necessary that either the vendor or the vendee shall sign any written memorandum of the sale. It is sufficient to bind both parties, if at the time of the sale, the clerk of the auction enter in a sale book a memorandum specifying the description and price of the land sold and the name of the purchaser, together with auction bills, catalog or written or printed notice of the sale containing the name of the person on whose account the sale is made and the terms of such sale.6

Since the statute does not specify any particular class of public sales at auction, there seems to be no reason why the erence express or implied so as to show on their face that they are related to the same subject matter, but such relation must appear from the contents of the letter or by express reference therein to each other. Hickman v. Cheney, 152 Mich. 217, p. 255-188 N. W. 993. Holding various letters between the parties to be sufficient to constitute a contract under the statute of frauds. See also Ryan v. United States, 136 U. S. 68 (84-86). In this case certain letters and telegrams between the parties were held to constitute an agreement obligating the owner to sell certain lands In the city of Sault Ste. Marie as a prospective site for Fort Brady. Raubitschek v. Blank, 80 N. Y. 479; Bayne v. Wiggins, 139 U. S. 210-35, L. Ed. 144; Swollow v. Strom, 83 Minn. 87; 85 N. W. 942; Walsh v. Bra-nard (Minn. 1905), 103 N. W. 1031; Seymour v. Warren, 179 N. Y. 1; N. N. E. 260; Gates v. Paul, 117 Wis. 170; 94 N. W. 55; Lyman v. Robinson, 96 Mass. 14; Uran v. Coates, 109 Mass. 587; Williams v. Smith, 161 Mass. 48; Lee v. Butler, 167 Mass. 426; Hibbard v. Hatch Storage Battery Co., 174 Mass. 296; Hickey v. Dale, 66 N. H. 336; Otis v. Payne, 86 Tenn. 663; Wills v. Rose, 77 Ind. 1; Thames Sand & Title Co. v. Deville, 100 Ind. 309; Gustin v. Davis, 129 Ind. 472; Kingsbury v. Burnside, 58 111. 310; Knight v. Cooley, 34 Iowa 218; Matteson v. Scoffield, 26 Wis. 671; Hickman v. Cheney, 155 Mich. 217 (255); 118 N. W. 993.

6. By an amendment to the statute of frauds (Act No. 83, Public Acts of 1917), the following proviso was added: "That whenever any lands or interest in lands shall be sold at public auction and the auctioneer or the clerk of the auction at the time of the sale enters in a sale book a memorandum specifying the description and price of the land sold and the name of the purchaser, such memorandum, together with the auction bills, catalog or written or printed notice of sale containing the name of the person on whose account the sale is made and the terms of sale, shall be deemed a memorandum of the contract of sale within the meaning of this section." same should not apply and control in both judicial sales as well as those where the individual voluntarily sells his property at public auction.