As Amended
SEC. 51-29-147. Petition and notice of consolidation.
Upon the adoption of such resolution, the said board of commissioners of said drainage district may file its petition in the chancery court of any one of the counties in which it embraces land, requesting said court, or the chancellor thereof in vacation, to set a date for a hearing upon said proposal, either in term time or vacation, not less than three weeks after the date of the decree fixing the same, and to direct the clerk of said court to give notice of the time, date, and place of such hearing by publication at least once each week for two consecutive weeks. Such notice shall be published in a newspaper or newspapers having general circulation in each of the counties in which any of said districts shall embrace land, the date of the first publication to be not less than ten days prior to the date set for said hearing. Said notice shall be addressed to the officials, landowners, taxpayers, and other persons interested in said drainage districts proposed to be affected by said consolidation, shall contain a statement that written protests or objections to the proposed consolidation may be filed with the clerk of said court at any time prior to the date set for said hearing, and shall state that a failure to so file such written protest or objection prior to said date shall forever bar and preclude such protest or objection. Said notice may be in substantially the following form:
____________________
Clerk of the Chancery Court of
_________ County, Mississippi.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 4752-02; Laws, 1950, ch. 430, Sec. 2.