HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

,!!!! I 1914 CHARLES ELLIOTT PERKINS

MEMORIAL COLLECTION

Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in tho year 1857, by

KEEN & LEE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Northern

District of Illinois.

STEREOTYPED BY J. FAGAN, PHILADELPHIA.

Dedicated

TO

THE BRAVE AND INDUSTRIOUS CITIZENS OF

ILLINOIS,

AND

TO ALL THOSE WHO INTEND TO BUILD A HOME THERE,

MAY THE FLOURISHING AND FERTILE

PRA I RI E-S T A T E

UNFOLD, FROM YEAR TO YEAR, MORE AND MORE GLORIOUSLY;

AND

MAY VIRTUE, WEALTH, AND HAPPINESS,

FOR EVER

HAVE THEIR ABODE WITHIN

HER BORDERS.

LAWS - LAND TITLES ...........

168

EXECUTION OF DEEDS AND MORTGAGES...

172

FORM OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT

173

RECORDING OP DEEDS AND MORTGAGES ................................................................. 174

WILLS OF REAL ESTATE........

............................................................ 175

THE PROBATE AND RECORDING OF WILLS ............................................................ 177

TITLE TO REAL ESTATE BY INHERITANCE ......................................................... 179

LEVY AND COLLECTION OF LAND TAXES ................. ...................................................... 180

LAND TAX FORFEITURES AND REDEMPTION

184

LIMITATION OF ACTIONS

184

LIMITATION FOR THE RECOVERY OF REAL ESTATE.....

185

EXEMPTIONS ......

186

HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION

187

LIEN LAW

188

CHATTLE MORTGAGES..................

189

CONTRACT

189

COLLECTION OF DEBTS ....................................................................................... 189

RATE OF INTEREST ......................................................................................... 191

LANDLORD AND TENANT ................................................................................... 191

PROMISSORY NOTES AND BILLS OF EXCHANGE ...................................................... 193

APPRENTICES.................

....................................... 193

RIGHTS OF MARRIED WOMEN AND WIDOW8 .........

194

ESTRAYS

195

GAME LAW..........................

................... 197

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SOIL .........

PAGE

AGRICULTURE

......................................................... 289

AMOUNT OF BUSHELS RAISED PER ACRE

....................................... 290

PROFITS OF FARMING.......

............................................................................. 293

................................................................................. 309

BREAKING THE SOIL............................................................................ 310

FENCING................

311

DIVISION OF FARMS, ROTATION OF CROPS, AND MANURING .....

312

LABOR, WAGES, AND IMPLEMENTS

316

INDIAN CORN ............

................. 319

WHEAT

.................................................................... 324

OATS

328

BARLEY

328

RYE

.................................................................................................. 329

BUCKWHEAT

320

HOPS ................................................................................................. 330

POTATOES .................................................................................................... 330

SWEET POTATOES......

332

FLAX .....

333

BROOM CORN

336

CHOCOLATE CORN.

337

CHINESE YAM.....

338

GRASSES.

339