1. The state, county, township, school district or municipality, or the legal representative thereof, shall cause a notice to be published stating the time and place when said petition will be presented, which notice shall set forth the general objects and purposes of the petition and shall be published in at least two issues of some daily or weekly newspaper printed and published in the county where the suit is brought, the last insertion of which shall be not less than three nor more than seven days before the presentation of said petition.

2. Any taxpaying citizen may in person or by legal representative file an intervening petition contesting the validity of such bonds, and in case an intervening petition is filed on or before the day set for the presentation of such petition, the court shall set a definite time for the hearing of said cause at which time the court shall hear and determine all the evidence and see all proofs offered concerning the legality or illegality of such issue.