In force March 2, 1837.
AN ACT to change the public square in the town of Mount Sterling.
1Addition to town
Public square
Sec.[Section] 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly, That all the ground included in the following boundaries, to wit: lots numbered
ten and eleven, of block numbered two, in Alexander (county,) and Ralph H. Hubburt’s addition to the town of Mount 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 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
streets—it being on Ralph H. Hubburt’s 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 declared to be a 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.2
Proviso.
Sec. 2. That the public square heretofore laid out in the original plat of said town, is hereby vacated, and the same is hereby declared to revert to the original proprietor
or proprietors 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.3
Approved 2d March, 1837.
1On February 10, 1837, William A. Richardson in the House of Representatives presented the petition of owners of lots in the town of Mount Sterling, requesting an addition to the town. The House referred the bill to the Committee
on the Judiciary. In response to the petition, Richardson from the Committee on the
Judiciary introduced HB 250 in the House on February 13. The House referred the bill to a select committee.
The select committee reported back the bill on February 20 with amendments, in which
the House concurred. On February 24, the House passed the bill as amended. On February
28, the Senate passed the bill. On March 2, the Council of Revision approved the bill, and the act became law.
Illinois House Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 543, 574, 647, 696, 772, 792, 806; Illinois Senate
Journal. 1836. 10th G. A., 1st sess., 525-26, 546, 558, 589.
2“Alexander (county)” and “Ralph H. Hubburt” were either typographical errors, or
the printer had difficulty determining the correct names. The transcriber of the
bill correctly recorded the names as Alexander Curry and Ralph H. Hurlbut. Some secondary sources identify the Curry involved in the Curry and Hurlbut addition
as Robert N. Curry, son of Alexander. Both Currys and Hurlbut owned land in the area.
Combined History of Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois (Philadelphia: W. R. Brink, 1882), 116, 255-56, 257; Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales, Brown County, 343:80; 700:73, 76, Illinois State Archives, Springfield, IL
3Earlier in the same session, the General Assembly had passed an act incorporating Mount Sterling as a town.
Printed Document, 1 page(s), Laws of the State of Illinois, Passed by the Tenth General Assembly (Vandalia, IL: William Walters, 1837), 333, GA Session: 10-1