Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all deeds, mortgages, conveyances, powers of attorney, or other instruments in writing, of, or concerning any lands, or real estate within this State, which have or may hereafter be made and executed without this State, and within the United States, and which may hereafter be acknowledged or proved in conformity with the laws and usage of the State, Territory or District, in which any of such conveyances or instruments have been, or shall hereafter be made and executed, shall be recorded or registered in the respective counties in this State, in which the lands, tenements or hereditaments, affected by any such conveyances or instruments, may be situate; and all conveyances or instruments thus acknowledged or proved, are hereby declared effectual and valid in law, to all intents and purposes, as

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though the same acknowledgments had been taken or proof of execution made, within this State, and in pursuance of the laws thereof; Provided, That the clerk of any court of record within such State, Territory or District, shall, under his hand and the seal of such court, certify that such instrument is acknowledged or proved in conformity with the laws of the State, Territory or District in which it is so acknowledged or proved, and all deeds, mortgages, conveyances, powers of attorney or other instruments in writing, of, or concerning any lands or real estate within this State, which have been heretofore recorded in the respective counties in which the lands or real estate, described in, or affected by such deeds, mortgages, conveyances, powers of attorney, or other instruments in writing, is situate, are hereby enacted and declared to be good and effectual, as notices to subsequent purchasers or mortgagees.

Approved, February 26, 1841.