LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1836.

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shall have contributed to the common stock, the period at
which the partnership is to commence and the period at which
it is to terminate.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That the certificate shall be
acknowledged by the several persons signing the same, before
a justice of the peace, or a judge of any court, and such acknow-
ledgments shall be made and certified in the same manner as
the acknowledgment of conveyances of land, and when so
acknowledged and certified, shall be filed in the office of the
clerk of the county in which the principal place of business of
the partnership shall be situated, and shall be also recorded by
him at large in a book kept for that purpose, open to public in-
spection, and if the partnership shall have places of business
situated in different counties, a transcript of the certificate, and
of the acknowledgment thereof, duly certified by the clerk, in
whose office it shall be filed, under his official seal, shall be
filed and recorded in like manner, in the office of the clerk of
every such county.

Acknow-
ledged,
filed, re-
corded.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted. That at the time of filing the
original certificate with the evidence of the acknowledgment
thereof, as before directed, an affidavit of one or more of the
general partners, shall also be filed in the same office, stating
that the sums specified in the certificate, to have been contri-
buted by each of the special partners to the common stock, have
been actually and in good faith, paid in cash.

Affidavit of
actual pay-
ment by
special
partners.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted. That no such partnership shall be
deemed to have been formed until a certificate shall have been
made, acknowledged, filed and recorded, nor until an affidavit

The certifi-
cate a pre-
requisite.

shall have been filed as above directed ; and if any false state-
ment shall be made in such certificate or affidavit, all the per-
sons interested in such partnership, shall be liable for all the
engagements thereof, as general partners.

Otherwise
liability.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the partners shall publish the
terms of the partnership when registered, for at least six weeks,
immediately after such registry, in two newspapers, to be desig-
nated by the clerk of the county in which such registry shall be
made, and in one newspaper in each county in which the said
partnership shall have a place of business ; and if there should
be no newspaper published in such county, then in such news-
paper as the clerk of said county may designate, and by notices

Publication
of partner-
ship re-
quired.

set up at the court-house door, and also at some public place in
each election district of the county, where such partnership, or
any branch thereof, may be located ; and if such publication be
not made, the partnership shall be deemed general.

Blue the
partnership
is deemed
general.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the affidavits of the pub-
lication of such notice, by the editors of the newspapers in
which the same shall have been published, and the affidavit oi

Affidavits of
publication.