Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General assembly: That it shall be lawful for the County Commissioners Court of any County in which any of the Military bounty lands in this state are situated, to procure to be copied into a well bound book or books, at the expense of such county, all deeds, patents, bonds, leases, or other writings for the conveyance of, or relating to lands lying in such county, and which deeds, patents, bonds, leases, or other Writings were recorded in the county of Madison previous to the organization of any County North of the Illinois river; such copies to be placed in the Recorders office of the county procuring the same

Sec 2 The person or persons employed by the county applying for such copies, shall have access to the books in the Recorders office of Madison County for the purpose of making such copies; and the Recorder of Madison county shall carefully compare such copies with the records in his office, and if he finds them to be correct, he shall make a certificate to that effect, under his hand and seal of office, at the end of each volume of such copies

Sec 3, At the end of the copy of each deed, or other writing copied as aforesaid, the person copying the same shall

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note the volume, and page of the record from which it is copied

Sec 4. For his services in comparing such copies, the Recorder of Madison county shall be entitled to compensation at the rate of Cents for each deed, or other writing so compared by him, to be paid by the county applying for such copies

Sec 5., All copies made, compared, and certified as aforesaid, and all transcripts of such copies, certified under the hand and official seal of the Recorder in whose office such copies shall be kept, shall be recorded and taken as evidence of the facts set forth therein, in all courts of Justice, and other places in this state, in as full, and ample a manner as the records from which they shall be taken Provided however That if any discipesancy ^or variance^ shall be found to exist between said copies, and the records of Madison county, then a copy from the records in said county of Madison, certified by the Recorder thereof to be correct, and to have been examined with referance to such variance, shall be recorded as the proper evidence

Sec 6. This act shall not be so construed as to change or effect the existing laws of this state in relation to the admission of the copies of deeds or other writings

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as evidence, but the same rules of evidence as to the production of the original deeds or writings, shall obtain as now provided on that subject

Sec 7, All acts and parts of acts heretofore passed for the copying of the records of Madison county, and for the removal of said records from Madison county, are hereby repealed. This act to take effect from and after its passage