(105 ILCS 5/15-17) (from Ch. 122, par. 15-17)
Sec. 15-17.
Patents.
Every purchaser of common school lands shall be entitled to a patent
from the State, conveying and assuring the title. Patents shall be issued
by the Secretary of State from returns made to him by the county
superintendent, township land commissioners or county board of school
trustees as the case may be. They shall contain a description of the land
granted and shall be in the name of and signed by the Governor, with the
great seal of State affixed thereto by the Secretary of State, and shall
operate to vest in the purchaser a title in fee simple. When patents are so
executed the Secretary of State shall note on the list of sales the date of
each patent in such manner as to perpetuate the evidence of its date and
delivery and thereupon transmit it to the county superintendent of the
proper county, to be by him delivered to the patentee, his heirs, or
assigns, upon the return of the original certificate of purchase, which
certificate, when returned, shall be filed and preserved by the county
superintendent. All such patents for school lands, or certified copies
thereof from any record legally made, shall, after 10 years from the date
of the patent, and such sale having been acquiesced in for 10 years by the
inhabitants of the township in which the land so conveyed is situated, be
conclusive evidence as to the legality of the sale, and that the title to
such land was, at the date of patent, legally vested in the patentee.
(Source: Laws 1961, p. 31.)
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