An act supplemental to an act entitled “an act to amend an act for the limitation of actions and for avoiding vexatious law suits.”

Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represened in the General Assembly, That the provisions of the act entitled “an act to amend” an act for the limitation of actions and for avoiding vexatious law suits,” approved tenth of February, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, which was approved on the seventeenth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, shall be construed to embrace the cases of all bona fide possessors, their heirs and assigns, claiming the premises possessed under color of title; without notice of the title of the person having right of entry or cause of action, and the time within which the entry may be made, or the action commenced, as against possessors as aforesaid, shall be limited by the act aforesaid; and the kind of possession referred to in said act, shall be construed to include and mean an enclosure and cultivation from year to year, and the payment of State and county taxes for seven successive years.

Sec 2 Rights of entry and of action in regard to vacant and unoccupied lands, on which persons having such rights have failed to pay State and county taxes for seven successive years, shall be limited by the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, as against persons claiming the same under color of title, and paying State and county taxes for seven years in succession.

Sec 3 The third proviso to the second section of the act to which this is a supplement, shall apply to the provisions of this act.