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CHAP. LXV.]
PARTNERSHIPS.
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the publishers (or their foreman) of the newspaper in which the same shall be published, may be filed with the register of deeds directing the same, and shall be evidence of the fact therein contained.

Sect. 11. Every renewal or continuance of such partnership, beyond the time originally fixed for its duration, shall be partnership. certified, acknowledged, and recorded, and an affidavit of a general partner be made and filed, and notice given in the manner herein required for its original formation, and every such partnership which shall be otherwise renewed or continued, shall be deemed a general partnership.

Sect. 12. Every alteration which shall made in the names of the parties, in the nature of the business, or in the capital or shares thereof, or in any other matter specified in the original certificate, shall be deemed a dissolution of the partnership; and any such partnership which shall in any manner be carried on after any such alteration shall have been made, shall be deemed a general partnership, unless renewed as a special partnership, according to the provisions of the last section.

Sect. 13. The business of the partnership shall be conducted under a firm in which the name of the general partners only shall be inserted, without the addition of the word "company," or any other general term; and, if the name of any special partner shall be [used] in such firm with his privity, he shall be deemed a general partner.

Sect. 14. Suits in relation to the business of the partirership shall be brought and conducted by and against the general partners, in the same manner as if there were no special partners.

Sect. 15. No part of the sum which any special partner shall have contributed to the capital stock shall be withdrawn by him or paid, or transferred to him in the shape of dividends, profits, or otherwise, at any time during the continuance of the partnership; but every partner may annually receive lawful interest on the sum so contributed by him, if the payment of such interest shall not reduce the original amount of such capital, and if, after the payment of such interest, any profits shall remain to be divided, he may also receive his portion of such profits.

Sect. 16. If it shall appear that, by the payment of in-