Sec[Section] 1 Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois represented in the General Assembly; That all the rights, title and interest which the State now has, or hereafter may acquire by escheat, in the real estate of Edward Butler, late of Equality, deceased, be, and the same is hereby released to, and confirmed upon Daniel Curtin, of Gallatin County

Sec 2 The said Daniel Curtin shall be entitled to proceed in his own name, in the same manner as the State’s Attorney, on behalf of the State, is authorized to proceed under “An act regulating escheats” approved March 1^st 1833 and the same process shall be awarded to the said Curtin, and judgment had in his name and for his benefit, as the state would be entitled to under the said act; the court proceeding in all respects by the same rules as are prescribed in said Act for the regulation of information on behalf of the state

Sec 3. It is hereby intended that the rights of the unknown heirs of the said Edward Butler deceased, if any there be, shall stand and be in all respects under the provision of the escheat laws of this state now in force.