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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1830.

insolvent debtors for the city and county of Baltimore, to per-
sons of legal knowledge, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

Repeal.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted. That any thing which is or may
be contained in the act to which this is a supplement, repug-
nant to the provisions of this act, be, and the same is hereby
repealed.

CHAFFER 73.
AN ACT supplemental to an Act, limiting the time for the Collection of
Fees of Attorneys, Solicitors, Clerks, Registers, Sheriffs, and other
Officers of this State, passed at December session, eighteen hundred
and thirty-three, chapter two hundred and fifty-eight.

Time
extended.

Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That
the time limited by the act to which this is a supplement, be,
and the same is hereby extended two years from the fifteenth
of March next, for all such fees and levies now due and deli-
vered to the sheriffs and collectors of this state, before the
fifteenth day of March last, any law to the contrary notwith-
standing.

CHAPTER 97.
AN ACT relating to limited Partnerships in this State.

Partnership
authorized.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That limited partnerships for the transaction of any mercantile,
mechanical, or manufacturing business within this state, may
be formed by two or more persons, upon the terms, with the
rights and powers, and subject to the conditions and liabilities

Restrictions

herein prescribed, but the provisions of this act shall not be
construed to authorize any such partnership for the purpose of
banking or making insurance.

General
and special
partners —
liabilities.

SEC. 2. And -be it enacted, That such partnerships may con-
sist of one or more persons, who shall be called general part-
ners, and who shall be jointly and severally responsible as
general partners now are by law, and of one or more persons
who shall contribute in actual cash payments, a specific sum as
capital to the common stock, who shall be called special part-
ners, and who shall not be liable for the debts of the partner-
ship, beyond the fund so contributed by him or them to the
capital ; Provided however, that the number of special partners
shall in no partnership exceed six.

Certificate
of part-
nership.
Form pre-
scribed.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That persons desirous of forming
such partnership, shall make and severally sign a certificate
which shall contain the name or firm under which such part-
nership is to be conducted, the general nature of the business
intended to be transacted, the names of all the general and spe-
cial partners interested therein, distinguishing which are general
and which are special partners, and their respective places of
residence, the amount of capital which each special partner