Sec[Section] 1^st Be it enacted by the [peo]ple of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly That ^all the ground included in the following boundries to wit^ Lot N^o M Numbered ten and eleven of Block Numbered two in Alexander Curry[’]s and Ralph H Hurlbut[’]s addition to the Town of Mt Sterling in the County of Schuyler on the East Side and adjoining main Cross Street and extending from North [Street] to Washington Street two hundred and [?] feet and Sixty feet on North and Washington streets and a lot lying on the West side of Main Cross Street extending from North Street two hundred and Sixty feet to Washington Street and Sixty feet on North and Washington Street It being on Ralph H Hurlbuts Land and known as such which said Square is two hundred and sixty ^feet^ from North to South and two hundred feet from East to West Including main Cross Street Be and the same [is] hereby decleared to be the public Square in and for the Town of Mt Sterling in the County of Schuyler aforesaid And as Such is hereby required to be recorded as a part of the plat of said Town

Sec^t[Section] 2^d That the public Square heretofore laid out [in] the Original plat of said Town is hereby Vacated and the same shall is hereby declared

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to revert to the original proprietor or propritors of said Town Provided That nothing herein Contained shall be so construed as to interfere with private rights or Vested interests in said Town ^without the Consent of such owner or owners^