Sec[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the state of Illinois represented in the General assembly, that whenever a judgment creditor shall desire to redeem real estate sold under execution , [...?] under the provisions, of the act of the Legislature of January 17. 1825 concerning judgments and executions, it shall be required preparatory thereto, that he shall sue out an execution on his judgment and place the same in the hands of the proper officer, with the receipt of the former purchaser for the redemption money, or that ^of the^ the Sheriff or other proper officer, if the redemption should have been made from him. Whereupon it shall be the duty of the sheriff or other officer to endorse the fact of such redemption upon the back of said execution, which shall be equivalent to a levy upon the said real estate, so redeemed for the purpose of a new sale thereof under said execution, and the same shall be forthwith advertised and offered for sale under and by virtue of said execution, and at said sale the judgement creditor so having redeemed, shall be considered to have bid, for said real estate, the amount of said redemption money, so paid

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by him, and if no higher bid shall be offered the premises shall be struck off to him, and a deed forthwith executed to said judgment creditor therefor. And no other redemption shall be allowed. But if other bids should be made and the said real estate should be sold for more than said redemption money then the excess, above the amount so paid to redeem, shall be applied, as a credit to the execution under which the redemption shall have been made and a certificate of purchase executed to the new purchaser for a deed within sixty days from said day of sale, unless the said premises should be redeemed in the meantime by another judgment creditor, which may be done on the same terms as the first redemption, and if the said real estate should be redeemed from said second purchaser, the same shall be done in the same way and upon the same terms and the sheriff or other officers shall proceed in the same mode to offer the said real estate for sale as is before required in cases of a first redemption, and such real estate may be successively redeemed, within every period of sixty days, as long as there shall be a judgment creditor disposed to redeem on the terms and in the manner aforesaid, And after the lapse of any one period of sixty sixty days, without redemption, it shall be the duty of the sheriff or other proper officer, to execute a deed for

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the premises, to the last purchaser in like manner as other sheriffs deeds are made.

Sec 2. A judgment creditor may redeem the whole, or any part being a legal subdivision, according to the laws of the United states, or of this state, of real estate previously sold under execution

sec 3. The Sheriff or other officer shall be allowed no commission or fees upon the amount of redemption money, paid in any case, but only on the excess made over and above the amount of redemption money actually paid