Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That hereafter the county commissioners’ courts of the several counties in this State, shall appoint but one assessor, any thing in the fifth section of “An act concerning the public revenue,” approved February twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, to the contrary notwithstanding; which assessor shall take (the) oath or affirmation prescribed by the said fifth section of the aforesaid act concerning the public revenue, and perform all the duties required under the existing laws to be performed by assessors.2

Sec. 2. In making out the alphabetical and duplicate list of taxable property required to be made by the revenue laws in force, the assessor shall reserve on the right hand side of each page in the book containing such list, columns of sufficient width to set down the amount of State tax, the amount of county tax, and if a road tax be levied, also a column for such tax; the assessor shall add up the several columns of figures in the book or list, before delivering the same to the clerk of the county commissioners’ court.

Sec. 3. Any person or persons owning or claiming lands advertised for sale for non-payment of taxes, may pay the taxes interest and costs due thereon before judgment: Provided, that such collector shall be required to make a report to the court, before judgment is rendered, of all lands upon which the taxes may have been paid, subsequent to making his return to the circuit court, according to the fourth section of “An act to amend an act concerning the public revenue,” ap-

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proved February second, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine. Sheriffs shall be authorized and required to receive taxes, interest and costs on all lands upon which judgment has been rendered up to the time of sale of such land. 3

Sec. 4. Assessors shall hereafter have until the twentieth day of August, annually, to make their returns to the clerks of the county commissioners’ courts of their respective counties.

Sec 5. In all cases where lands shall have been, or may be sold by any sheriff under the provisions of the act recited in the first section herein, and such sheriff shall be succeeded in office by another person, the successor of such sheriff is hereby authorized to execute deeds to the purchasers thereof in like manner as if the sales of said lands had been conducted by him, and such deeds so executed by him, shall follow as near as may be after the form prescribed in the forty-second section of said act, and shall in all respects possess the same validity and efficacy as if made by the sheriff conducting the sale of the lands therein described.

Sec. 6. That this act so soon as it becomes a law, shall be published in the paper of the Public Printer at Springfield.

Approved, February 26, 1841.