Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by KEEN & LEE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. TO ALL THOSE WHO INTEND TO BUILD A HOME THERE, MAY THE FLOURISHING AND FERTILE PRAIRIE-STATE UNFOLD, FROM YEAR TO YEAR, MORE AND MORE GLORIOUSLY; AND MAY VIRTUE, WEALTH, AND HAPPINESS, FOR EVER HAVE THEIR ABODE WITHIN HER BORDERS. CONTENTS. LAWS - LAND TITLES ................. EXECUTION OF DEEDS AND MORTGAGES................. FORM OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT ....... RECORDING OF DEEDS AND MORTGAGES ..................... THE PROBATE AND RECORDING OF WILLS .... *******....... ........... 177 TITLE TO REAL ESTATE BY INHERITANCE ..... LEVY AND COLLECTION OF LAND TAXES.........................................****************... 100 LAND TAX FORFEITURES AND REDEMPTION .................. LIMITATION OF ACTIONS ......... |