Penalty on Sealer for neglect, etc. Vibrating Steelyard. Construction of shall be the duty of the Township Clerk forthwith thereafter to procure the same at the expense of the township. (1255.) SEC. 15. If any Sealer of weights and measures shall neglect to perform his duty, as prescribed in this chapter, he shall forfeit, for each neglect, the sum of five dollars. (1256.) SEC. 16. The vibrating steelyards, which have heretofore been allowed and used in this State, may continue to be used; but each beam, and the poises thereof, shall be annually tried, proved, and sealed, by a Sealer of weights and Measures, like other beams and weights. (1257.) SEC. 17. When any commodity shall be sold by the certain contracts. hundred weight, it shall be understood to mean the nett weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois, and all contracts concerning goods or commodities sold by weight, shall be construed accordingly, unless such construction would be manifestly inconsistent with the special agreement of the parties contracting. Weight of Grains, etc., to the Bushel. 9. (1258.) SEC. 18. Whenever wheat, rye, Indian corn, oats, barley, clover seed, buckwheat, dried apples, or dried peaches, shall be sold by the bushel, and no special agreement as to the measure or weight thereof shall be made by the parties, the measure thereof shall be ascertained by weight, and shall be computed as follows: Sixty pounds for a bushel of wheat, or clover seed; fifty-six pounds for a bushel of rye, or Indian corn; thirty-two pounds for a bushel of oats; forty-eight 1839, p. 218, Sec. pounds for a bushel of barley; and forty-two pounds for a bushel of buckwheat; and twenty-eight pounds for a bushel of dried apples, or dried peaches. (1259.) SEC. 19. The half bushel, and the parts thereof, shall be the standard measure for charcoal, fruits, and other commodities, customarily sold by heaped measure; and in measuring such commodities, the half bushel, or other smaller measure, shall be heaped as high as may be, without especial effort or design. gotiable. (1260.) SECTION 1. All notes in writing, made and signed by What Notes neany person, whereby he shall promise to pay to any other person or his order, or to the order of any other person, or unto 7 Metcalf, 588. the bearer, any sum of money therein mentioned, shall be due 5 Cowen, 186. and payable as therein expressed; and shall have the same 3 Comstock, 19. effect, and be negotiable in like manner, as inland bills of exchange, according to the custom of merchants. 2 Hill, 59. Agent. (1261.) SEC. 2. Every note signed by the agent of any per- Note signed by son under a general or special authority, shall bind such person, and have the same effect, and be negotiable, as provided in the preceding section. ees, etc. (1262.) SEC. 3. The payees and indorsees of every such Actions by paynote payable to them or their order, and the holders of every such note payable to bearer, may maintain actions for the sums of money therein mentioned, in like manner as in cases of inland bills of exchange, and not otherwise. (1263.) SEC. 4. Such notes made payable to the order of the Effect, when paymaker thereof, or to the order of a fictitious person, shall, if maker or fictiti negotiated by the maker, have the same effect, and be of the same validity as against the maker, and all persons having 38. knowledge of the facts, as if payable to bearer. (1264.) SEC. 5. On all bills of exchange payable at sight, or ous person. When grace al- at a future day certain, within this State, and on all negotiable lowed. 6 Hill, 174. 4 Metcalf, 203. 6 do 13. Not if payable on demand. promissory notes, orders and drafts payable at a future day certain, within this State, in which there is not an express stipulation to the contrary, grace shall be allowed, except as provided in the following section, in like manner as it is allowed by the custom of merchants, on foreign bills of exchange, payable at the expiration of a certain period after date or sight. (1265.) SEC. 6. The provisions of the last preceding section 8 Johnson, 180, shall not extend to any bill of exchange, note or draft payable on demand. 374. Acceptance to be in writing. 1 Hill, 82. 328. change and dam able without the United States. (1266.) SEC. 7. No person within this State shall be charged 2 Sand. S. C. R. as an acceptor on a bill of exchange, unless his acceptance shall be in writing, signed by himself or his lawful agent. Rates of Ex- (1267.) SEC. 8. Whenever any bill of exchange, drawn or ages, when pay indorsed within this State, and payable without the limits of the United States, shall be duly protested for non-acceptance or non-payment, the party liable for the contents of such bill shall, on due notice and demand thereof, pay the same at the current rate of exchange at the time of the demand, and damages at the rate of five per cent. upon the contents thereof, together with interest on the said contents, to be computed from the date of the protest; and said amount of contents, damages and interest, shall be in full of all damages, charges and expenses. When payable in another State of the U. States. (1268.) SEC. 9. The rates of damages to be allowed upon bills of exchange duly protested for non-acceptance or nonpayment, if drawn or endorsed within this State, payable at any place without this State, but within the United States, shall be as follows, in addition to the contents of such bill with interest and costs, that is to say: upon all such bills payable within the territory of Wisconsin, or either of the States of Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Ohio or New York, three per cent. on the contents of the bill; if payable within either of the States of Missouri, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, or the District of Columbia, five per cent., and if payable elsewhere, within any other of the United States or territories thereof, ten per cent. Limited be formed. General and Spe (1269.) SECTION 1. Limited partnerships for the transaction For what purof any mercantile, mechanical, or manufacturing business, Partnerships may 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 hereinafter provided; but nothing in this chapter contained shall be construed to authorize any such partnership for the purposes of banking or insurances. (1270.) SEC. 2. Limited partnerships may consist of one or Liabilities of more persons, who shall be called general partners, and who cial Partners. shall be jointly and severally responsible as general partners now are by law, and of one or more persons who shall contribute a specific amount of capital, in cash or other property, at cash value, to the common stock, who shall be called special partners, and who shall not be liable for the debts of the partnership, beyond the amount of the fund so contributed by them respectively to the capital, except as hereinafter provided. By whom Busi ness to be transacted. Certificate, its contents. How Certificate to be acknowledged. Certificate to be filed and recorded. When Certificate to be filed and ferent Counties. (1271.) SEC. 3. The general partners only shall be authorized to transact business, to sign for the partnership, and to bind the same. (1272.) SEC. 4. The persons desirous of forming such partnership, shall make and severally sign a certificate, which shall contain: 1. The name or firm under which the partnership business is to be conducted: 2. The general nature of the business to be transacted; 3. The names of all the general and special partners interested therein, distinguishing which are general partners, and which are special partners, and their respective places of residence; 4. The amount of capital stock which each special partner shall have contributed to the common stock; 5. The period at which the partnership is to commence, and the period when it will terminate. (1273.) SEC. 5. Such certificate shall be acknowledged by the several persons signing the same, before some officer authorized by law to take the acknowledgment of deeds, and such acknowledgment shall be made and certified in the manner provided by law for the acknowledgment of deeds for the conveyance of land. (1274.) SEC. 6. The certificate so acknowledged and certified shall be filed in the office of the County Clerk of the county in which the principal place of business of the partnership shall be situated, and shall be recorded at length by the clerk in a book to be kept by him; and such book shall be subject, at all reasonable hours, to the inspection of all persons. (1275.) SEC. 7. If the partnership shall have places of busirecorded in difness situated in different counties, a transcript of such certifi cate, and of the acknowldgement thereof, duly signed by the clerk in whose office it shall have been filed, under his official seal, shall be filed and recorded in like manner, in the office of the clerk of every such county, and the books containing such records shall be subject to inspection, in the manner above directed. Affidavit to be filed with Certificate. (1276.) SEC. 8. At the time of filing the original certificate and 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 that the amount in money, or other property at cash value, specified in the certificate to have been contributed by each of the special partners to the com |