(765 ILCS 215/2) (from Ch. 133, par. 12)
Sec. 2.
Whenever one or more proprietors of lands in this state, the
corners and boundaries of whose lands are lost, destroyed, or are in
dispute, or who are desirous of having said corners and boundaries
permanently re-established, and who will not enter into an agreement as
provided by section one of this act, it shall be lawful for said proprietor
or proprietors that they shall cause a notice, in writing, to be served on
the owner or owners of adjacent tract or tracts, if known, and residing in
this state; or if not known or not residing in this state, by publishing in
a public newspaper published in such county, and if no newspaper shall be
published, then by posting up in four different public places in said
county a written or printed notice to the effect that, on a return day
named therein, which shall not be later than sixty days from the date of
such notice, he, she or they will make application to the circuit court of
the county in which said lands are situated, for the appointment of a
commission of surveyors to make survey of and to permanently establish said
corners and boundaries, which notice shall be posted up at least four weeks
before the time appointed for said application, and one of said notices
shall be in the precinct or township in which said corners and boundaries
are situated. If personal service is had on the owner or owners of adjacent
lands the same shall be made at least ten days prior to the day of
application named in the notice and if notice is given by publication in a
newspaper the same shall be published therein once each week for three
successive weeks, the first publication to be at least four weeks before
the day of application named in the notice.
(Source: Laws 1933, p. 1105.)
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