Section 1 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois Represented in the General Assembly, that a patent for Land shall be deemed and considered a better legal and paramount
               title, in the patentee his heirs or assigns than the official Certificate of any Register
               of a Land Office of the United States, of the entry or purchase of the same Land
            
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         “An act to amend the act entitled “An act declaring what shall be evidence, in Certain
               Cases” Approved 10th January 1827[”]
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                                    Handwritten Document,  2 page(s),  Folder 341, SB 21, GA Session 11-1,  Illinois State Archives [Springfield, IL] ,