Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That hereafter no person who now has or may hereafter may have any right of entry into any lands, tenements or hereditaments, of which any person may be possessed by actual residence thereon, having a connected title in law or equity, deducible of record from this state or the United states, or from any public officer or other person authorized by the laws of the state, to sell such land, for non payment of taxes, or from any sheriff, marshall, or other person authorized to sell such land on execution, or under any order, judgment, or decree of any court of record, shall make any entry therein, except within seven years from the time of such possession being taken; but when the possessor shall acquire such title after the time of taking such possession, the limitation shall begin to run from the time of acquiring title.

Sec 2 That any real possessory, ancestral or mixed action or writ of right brought for the recovery of any lands, tenements or hereditaments of which any person may be possessed by actual residence thereon, having a connected title in law or equity deducible of record from this state or the United

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States, or from any public officer or other person authorized by the laws of the state to sell such land, for nonpayment of taxes or from any sheriff, marshall or other person authorized to sell such land on execution, or under any order, judgment or decree of any court of record, shall be brought within seven years next after possession being taken as aforesaid; but when the possessor shall acquire such title after taking ^such^ possession, the limitation shall begin to run from the time of acquiring title: Provided That possession as aforesaid, to bar the rights, actions and suits aforesaid, shall have been continued in manner aforesaid for the term of seven years next preceeding the time of asserting the right of entry, or the commencement of any such suit or action, and provided further, that the heirs, devisees and assigns of the person having such possession and title, shall have the same benefit of this act as the person from whom the possession was derived, could have had by virtue of such possession: And provided also, that in all the foregoing cases in this act mentioned, where the person who shall have right of entry, title or cause of action, is, or shall be, at the time possession is taken as aforesaid, under the age of

31	twenty one years, insane, imprisoned, feme covert, ^(^beyond
32	the limits of the United States or of this state and
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33	in the employment of the state or the United States, ^)^
34	such person may make such entry or institute such

action within the time herein limited, after the several disabilities herein enumerated, shall cease to exist. This act to take effect on the first day of June next.