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

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.