Ind. Code § 8-2-15-2

Sec. 2. The board shall not grant a license to the applicant unless he shall produce satisfactory evidence to the court that he has set up in the township where the ferry is proposed to be kept and maintained written or printed notices in three (3) public places of his intention to apply to such board for a license to keep a ferry: Provided, There be a newspaper of general circulation published in the township where such ferry is to be kept, such notice may be given by publishing same in such newspaper not less than ten (10) days before the meeting of said board of commissioners.