Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General Assembly, That the several acts authorising the sale of sections numbere[d] sixteen or such lands as may be gra[nted] in lieu thereof to the inhabitants of town[ships] for the use of schools, shall be deemed and taken to apply to all lands granted by the United States to this state for the use of the inhabitants of any fractional township, for the use of schools.

sec. 2. The school lands granted for the use of the inhabitants of any fractional township, may be sold on petition as in other cases, although such fractional township shall not contain fifty white inhabitants; but such school lands shall not be sold unless the number of white inhabitants in such fractional township shall bear as large a proportion to the quantity of school land granted for the use of the same, as the number fifty bears to an entire section of land.

sec. 3. When any certificate of the purchase of any school land, issued by the school commissioner, or any patent for school land issued by the Governor, Secretary of state, and auditor, shall be lost, or destroyed, the owner of the same shall be entitled to receive a duplicate copy of [such]1 certificate or patent, by filing with the [school]2

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commissioner of the county in which the land was sold, an affidavit testifying to the loss or destruction of such certificate or patent, particularly describing the land or lands in question, and stating that the same has not been sold or transfered by him.

sec. 4. The school commissioner shall be entitled to a fee of fifty cents for filing the affidavit and issuing a duplicate certificate of purchase, And to a fee of one dollar for obtaining a duplicate copy of a patent; to be paid by the person applying for such duplicate copy.