Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

In force Feb.[February] 12, 1835.

AN ACT to provide for Transcribing certain Records therein named.
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County commissioners of Adams county to appoint a commissioner to transcribe said records.

Shall take an oath.

Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That the county commissioners’ court of the county of Adams, be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, whenever they shall deem it expedient, by an order to be entered on their records, to appoint some competent person as a commissioner, for the purpose hereinafter expressed, who shall take and subscribe an oath faithfully and carefully to perform such duties as may be required of him by this act, which oath may be administered and certified by any justice of the peace of said county.

County commissioners to furnish him with suitable books.

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners’ court of said county, when they make such appointment, or as soon thereafter as may be convenient, to provide a sufficient number of blank books, substantially bound, and suitable for recording deeds in, which books, when provided, shall be delivered to the aforesaid commissioner, who shall receipt for the same.

His duties.

Sec. 3. As soon as such book or books shall be delivered to said commissioner, he shall record in each book a copy of the order of his appointment and his oath of office, and proceed in due time to all the recording offices in this State where deeds or title papers for lands lying in the said county of Adams have been by law required or permitted to be recorded, or where such records may be deposited or kept, and shall, from the books of said offices, make out and record in a fair and legible manner in the book or books so furnished him, all deeds and title papers to lands lying in the aforesaid county, which have been recorded in any such recording office as aforesaid, after which, said commissioner shall return the book or books so delivered to him, to the Recorder of the county of Adams; and it shall be the duty of said Recorder to make a certificate to that effect, at the end of each book. The said Recorder shall estimate the number of deeds which said commissioner shall have transcribed into such book or books, and certify the same to the county commissioners’ court of said county, who shall thereupon make an order in favor of such commissioner, for the sum of twenty-five cents for each deed by him transcribed as aforesaid, to be paid as other county orders are.

Duties of recorders and others having said records in possession.

Sec. 4.

It shall be the duty of all recorders and other persons who may have the care, custody, or control of any of the books in which deeds to lands lying within the said county of Adams have been recorded, to permit said commissioner to make transcripts of all and every such deed,

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and for that purpose, to use the books in which such deeds may be recorded.

Sec. 5. The said county commissioners’ court shall have power to fill all vacancies in the said office of commissioner.

Transcripts when so made to be deemed books of record.

Sec. 6. The said commissioner in transcribing the deeds and title papers aforesaid, into the books so provided as aforesaid, shall, immediately after transcribing each deed, title paper, acknowledgment and certificate, note in the said book at what time, in what office, book and page, the same was originally recorded, and when such transcribed record books shall be delivered to the Recorder of the said county of Adams, they shall, to all intents and purposes, be considered as books of records of deeds for the said county of Adams, and copies of such transcribed records certified by the Recorder of said county, shall be evidence in all courts and places, in the same manner that copies of deeds regularly recorded in the Recorder’s office of said county are evidence and with the like effect.

Certified copies thereof good evidence.

Sec. 7. Copies of the records of deeds and title papers, from the books of records, to be deposited in the Recorder’s office of the county of Schuyler, certified by the Recorder of the said county of Schuyler, shall be evidence in all courts and places, in the same manner and with the like effect, as if the same were certified by the proper Recorder of the office to which the said records originally belonged.

Sec. 8. The provisions of this act may be extended to all or any of the counties in the Military Tract, and the county commissioners’ courts of any or all of those counties, are hereby authorized and empowered to have the records of all deeds and title papers for lands situated in their respective counties, transcribed in the same manner and with the same effect as is herein provided for Adams county.

Approved, Feb. 12, 1835.

1Archibald Williams introduced SB 12 in the Senate on December 12, 1834. On December 16, the Senate referred it to a Committee of the Whole. On February 9, 1835, the Senate discharged the Committee of the Whole from further consideration and referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill on February 10 with an amendment, in which the Senate concurred. The Senate passed the bill as amended on February 11. On February 12, the House of Representatives referred the bill to a select committee. The select committee reported back the bill with sundry amendments, in which the House concurred. The House passed the bill as amended. The Senate concurred with the House amendments on February 13. On February 13, the Council of Revision approved the bill and the act became law. Journal of the House of Representatives of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, Ill.: J. Y. Sawyer, 1835), 540, 545, 552, 563, 565, 568, 572; Journal of the Senate, of the Ninth General Assembly of the State of Illinois, at their First Session, Begun and Held in the Town of Vandalia, December 1, 1834 (Vandalia, Ill.: J. W. Sawyer, 1835), 87, 101, 468, 475, 495, 511, 520, 526, 527, 531.