307.43  Federal donations.
  If the government of the United States provides for free distribution among the states of machinery or other equipment suitable for use in road improvement, the director may receive and receipt for the machinery and equipment, and take action to secure to the state the benefit of any such tenders by the federal authorities. The director may make an apportionment of the machinery or other equipment among the counties of the state which in the director’s judgment will best facilitate work in progress or contemplated by the counties, but the title and right of possession of the property received from the federal government is at all times in the director for the use and benefit of the state.
86 Acts, ch 1245, §1924