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PARTNERSHIPS.
[CHAP. LXV.

Sect. 5. The certificate shall be acknowledged or proved as to the several persons signing the same, before the same persons before whom a conveyance of lands may be now or hereafter acknowledged or proved, and such acknowledgment or proof shall be made and certified in the same manner as the acknowledgment or proof of the conveyance of lands may be made or certified.

Sect. 6. The certificate, so acknowledged and certified, shall be filed in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the principal place of business of the partnership shall be situated, and shall also be recorded by him at large in a book to be kept for that purpose, open to public inspection. If the partnership shall have place of business situated in different counties, a transcript of the certificate and acknowledgment thereof, duly certified by the register of deeds in whose office it shall be filed, under his official seal, shall be filed and recorded in like manner in the office of the register of deeds of every such county.

Sect. 7. 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 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.

Sect. 8. 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 shall have false state- been filed as above directed; and if any false statement be made in such certificate or affidavit, all the persons interested in such partnership shall be liable for all the engagements thereof, as general partners.

Sect. 9. The partners shall publish the term of the partnership, when registered, for at least six weeks immediately after such registry, in a newspaper, to be designated by the register of deeds in the county where such registry shall be made, if there is (one) published therein; and if there is none published in said county, then in a newspaper published at the capital of the territory, and if such publication be not made, the partnership shall be deemed general.

Sect. 10. Affidavit of the publication of such notice, by