§ 10. In the months of October and November, or one of thorn, immediately preceding the application for any Bill for laying down a tramway or constructing an underground railway or subway, when such Bill contains powers authorising any alteration or disturbance of the surface of any street or road, notice there of shall be posted for 790 fourteen consecutive days in every such street or road along or under which it is proposed to lay the tramway or construct the railway or subway in such manner as the authority having the control of such street or road shall direct; and if after application to such authority no such direction shall be given then in some conspicuous position in every such street or road, and such notice shall also state the place or places at which the plans of such tramway, railway, or subway will be deposited.