ART. 73.] CERTIFICATE. 1073

nature of the business intended to be transacted, the names of all
the general and special partners interested therein, distinguishing
which are general and which are special partners, and their re-
spective 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.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 72, sec. 4 1886, ch. 79, sec. 4. 1884, ch. 65.

4. The certificate shall be acknowledged by the several persons
signing the same before any officer authorized to take the
acknowledgments of deeds conveying land in this State, and such
acknowledgments shall be made and certified to in the same
manner as the acknowledgments of such deeds; and when so
acknowledged and certified shall be filed in the office of the clerk
of the circuit court for 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 inspection; and if the part-
nership shall have places of business situated in different counties,
or in a county and the city of Baltimore, a transcript of the cer-
tificate, 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.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1836, ch. 97, sec. 5.

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 com-
mon stock, have been actually and in good faith paid in cash.

Lineweaver v. Slagle, 64 Md. 465.

Ibid. sec. 6. 1836, ch. 97, sec. 6.

6. No such partnership shall be deemed to have been formed
until a certificate shall have been made, acknowledged, filed and