19-217.   New townships; area and population; petition; notice.The board of county commissioners shall not set off or organize any newtownship unless it shall contain territory equal to at least thirty squaremiles, and at least two hundred inhabitants within the limits thereof,except when an incorporated city or town is included in the limits of saidtownship; nor shall any township be set off or organized unless a petitionbe first presented to the board, signed by at least fifty electors residenttherein, asking for such change, nor unless notice of such proposed changeand of the presenting of a petition therefor has been given for at leastthree months next prior to the time of presenting such petition, bypublication at least once a week in a newspaper published in the county,and of general circulation among the people to be affected by such proposedchange, for three consecutive weeks, or if no such paper be published inthe county, then by written or printed notices securely posted in at leastthree public places in each township to be affected by the change.

      History:   G.S. 1868, ch. 25, § 24; L. 1881, ch. 49, § 1; March 15; R.S. 1923,19-217.