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Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That all deeds, mortgages, transfers, conveyances[,] and common assurances of any kinds whatsoever [in?] which shall have been, or may hereafter be perfected and executed according, and
in conformity to the laws of the state or territory in which the [?] executing the same may reside, for lands, [tenements ][,] and hereditaments lying and being within this state, shall be, and are hereby declared to be valid to all intents and purposes; and admited to be recorded as though they had been executed in the manner required by the laws
of this State.2
Sec 2. That all deeds[,] conveyances, and other instruments of and concerning the conveyance of lands, tenements[,] and hereditaments, lying within this state which have been executed and acknowledged or proved in conformity with the laws of
the State or Territory in which they were executed, and which have heretofore been
admitted to record in the Recorder’s office of the County in which such lands, tenements[,] or hereditaments were situated at the time of such recording, or in the office of
State Recorder shall be deemed and held to have been duly executed and recorded in
as full and perfect a manner as if such deeds, conveyances[,] or other instruments had been acknowledged or proved according to the laws of this
state.
Sec 3. Every deed, and conveyance[,] or other instrument of, or concerning any lands, tenements[,]
...?] or authorized by this act [?] of the party wishing to use the [?] transcript of the record thereof, certified by the Recorder, in whose office the
same may be [?] may be read, in evidence in any court of this State.
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Illinois or hereditaments, which by virtue of this act shall be required, or entitled to be
recorded, being acknowledged or proved according to the provisions of [this?] act[,?] whether the same be recorded or [?] read in evidence without further proof of the execution thereof, and if it shall
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1On December 14, 1835, William Thomas introduced SB 8 in the Senate. The Senate passed the bill on January 4, 1836. On January 14, the House of Representatives tabled the bill. On January 15, the House took up the bill and voted against its
passage.
Illinois House Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 227, 245, 276-77, 303, 327, 342;
Illinois Senate Journal. 1835. 9th G. A., 2nd sess., 31, 51, 132, 165, 265.
2A 1822 law governed deeds executed outside Illinois. A 1827 law and its 1829 supplement governed the conveyance of real property.
“An Act concerning Deeds Executed Without this State,” 30 December 1822, Laws of the State of Illinois (1823), 85-86; “An Act concerning Conveyances of Real Property,” 31 January 1827,
The Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1827), 95-102; “An Act to Amend the ‘Act concerning the Conveyance of Real Property,’
Approved, January 31, 1827, and for Other Purposes,” 22 January 1829, The Revised Code of Laws, of Illinois (1829), 24-25.
Handwritten Document, 4 page(s), Folder 135, SB 8, GA Session: 9-2,
Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL) ,