Section 17 Advertisements and notices preliminary to sanction.F1

Before the Commissioners shall sanction any improvements, notice shall be given of the application . . . F2by a notice in writing given, . . . F3 . . . , to the nearest heir or heirs of entail, not exceeding three, and to the holders of every heritable security on such lands appearing upon the records; and in such . . . notices . . . shall be stated the maximum amount which it is proposed to charge in respect of the improvements, and the greatest and least terms over which it is proposed that the rentcharge should be spread; and the Commissioners shall not sanction the improvements until one month shall have elapsed from the . . . service of such notices . . . of which . . . service of all necessary notices as aforesaid, the landowner shall, if required by the Commissioners, satisfy them by one or more statutory declarations made by him or on his behalf.