The holder or holders of title, or evidence of title, to any body of land adjacent to or situate without the boundaries of any drainage district organized under this act N.M. Stat. Ann. § 73-8-1 to 73-8-60, may file with the board of directors of the district a petition in writing praying that such lands be included in such district. The petition shall describe the tracts or body of land owned by the petitioners in such manner as to identify same, and such petition shall be deemed to give the assent of the petitioners to the inclusion in such district of the lands described in the petition. Such petition shall be acknowledged in the same manner as provided by law for conveyances of land.