§ 224. Application of the last four sections. The provisions of sections two hundred and twenty to two hundred and twenty-three, inclusive, shall apply to all cases where a new town shall have been formed, or the line of any town shall have been changed by the board of supervisors of any county since the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, where no proceedings have been taken under chapter five hundred and ninety-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy.