Section 55. Notice of intention to condemn property

The corporation
  counsel shall give or cause to be given notice  by  publication  in  two
  public  newspapers  published  in  the  city,  of  his intention to make
  application to the such court that the compensation which should  justly
  be  made  to  the  respective  owners  of  or  persons interested in the
  property proposed to be taken or  extinguished  by  such  proceeding  be
  ascertained  and  determined  by  the  court without a jury. Such notice
  shall state the time and place of such application, shall briefly  state
  the  object  of the application, and shall briefly describe the property
  sought to be acquired or affected, and refer to a fuller statement to be
  filed in the office of the board of transportation, in  which  shall  be
  set  forth the location and boundaries of the several lots or parcels of
  property, and the property rights sought to be taken or affected, and  a
  brief  statement  as  to  each  of such lots or parcels, of the property
  rights  therein  or  appurtenant  thereto  sought  to  be  acquired   or
  extinguished,  with  a  reference to the dates and places of filing such
  maps or plans and memoranda, shall be a sufficient  description  of  the
  property  sought  to  be  so  taken  or  affected.  Such notice shall be
  published in such newspaper twice  a  week  for  two  weeks  immediately
  previous  to  the  time fixed in the notice for the presentation of each
  petition.