unded in the bank in the name of the trustees (to be
appointed) of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the proceeds to be applied
to the building of "Methodist Episcopal meeting houses in the city of
Mount Carmel, and to other religious purposes," not including ministers'
salary; the second part to be funded in the name of the trustees (to be
appointed) of a male academy; the third part to be similarly funded for a
female academy; the money from private donation lots to be funded in the
name of the purchasers, after deducting ten per cent for expenses, which
ten per cent should remain in the bank as permanent stock. The articles of
association were elaborate. The 18th article became known as the "Blue
Laws." It read as follows: "ART. 18. No theatre or play-house shall ever
be built within the bounds of this city. No person who shall be guilty of
drunkenness, profane swearing or cursing, Sabbath breaking, or who shall
keep a disorderly house, shall gamble, or suffer gambling in his house, or
raise a riot, or break the peace within the city, or be guilty of any
other crime of greater magnitude in guilt than those here mentioned, and
shall be convicted thereof before the mayor, council, or any other court
having cognizance of such crime or crimes, shall be eligible to any office
of the city of Mount Carmel or its bank, or be entitled to vote for any
such officer, within three years after such conviction, notwithstanding
anything in these articles to the contrary."

The plan for a town was successful. Beauchamp was surveyor, pastor,
teacher, and lawyer in the beginning of settlement. By 1819 a school was
established; four or five years later a school-house was built; by 1820
Mt. Carmel circuit of the M. E. church had been formed; in 1825 a brick
church was erected; the same year the town was incorporated by the state
on the plan laid down in the articles of association; in 1827 the annual
conference of the Illinois Conference was held at Mt. Carmel.

Beauchamp's health having improved he reentered the ministry in 1822, and
at the General Conference two years later he lacked but two votes of being
chosen bishop. He died in 1824.

Hinde, in 1825, was a member of the Wabash Navigation Company, consisting
of seventeen prominent Indiana and Illinois men, and having a capital
stock of one million dollars. He was one of the nine directors for the
first year. He continued to be a contributor to periodical literature and
became the bio