482 PARTNERSHIPS—LIMITED. [ART. 72.

2. Such partnership may consist of one or more persons, who
shall be called general partners, and who shall be jointly and
severally responsible as general partners 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 partners, and who shall not be liable for the debts of the
partnership beyond the fund so contributed by him or them
to the capital; but the number of special partners shall, in no
partnership, exceed six.

3. Persons desirous of forming such partnership, shall make
and severally sign a certificate, which shall contain the name or
firm under which such partnership is to be conducted, the gene-
ral nature of the business intended to be transacted, the names
of all the general and special partners interested therein, dis-
tinguishing which are general and which are special partners,
and their respective places of residence, the amount of capital
which each special partner 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.

4. 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 acknowledgments 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 Circuit Court of the county in which
the principal place of business of the partnership shall be, (or if
it be in the city of Baltimore, in the office of the clerk of the
Superior Court of Baltimore city,) and shall be recorded by him
at large in a book kept for that purpose, open to public inspec-
tion; and if the partnership shall have places of business situated
in different counties, or in a county and the city of Baltimore, 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 or city.

5. At the time of filing the original certificate, with the evi-
dence of the acknowledgment thereof, as before directed, an affi-
davit 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 contributed by each of the special partners to the
common stock, have been actually and in good faith paid in cash.