Section 171 Notice of rate to be given.

Notice of the intention of making every rate authorized to be made under the provisions of this or the special Act, or any Act incorporated therewith, and of the time at which the same is intended to be made, and of a place where a statement of the proposed rate is deposited for inspection by the ratepayers, shall be given by the commissioners by placards posted up in public places, and shall be advertised in some newspaper circulating within the limits of the special Act, in the week immediately previous to such rate being made, or as nearly so as may be.