objection made, to the naturalization of such alien, the Court will, on the last day of such general sitting, direct that such certificate be filed of record in the Court; and thereupon, the alien will be admitted and confirmed in all the rights and privileges of British birth, to all intents whatever, as if he or she had been born within the Dominion.

These formalities having been gone through, the alien will be entitled to receive from the Court, a certificate of naturalization, under the seal of the Court, and the signature of the clerk thereof, that he or she hath complied with the several requirements of the act. A copy of this certificate may, at the option of the party, be registered in the Registry office of any county or registration division within the Dominion, and a certified copy of such registry is sufficient evidence of such naturalization, in all Courts and places.

Any alien, entitled at the time of the passing of the act, (22 May, 1868), to be naturalized under the provisions of any of the acts then in force, may take the oaths of residence and allegiance, and obtain certificates, in the same manner, and with the same effect, as aliens naturalized under the

new act.

The clerk of the Court, for reading and filing the certificate of residence, and preparing and issuing the certificate of naturalization under the seal of the Court, is entitled to receive twenty-five cents, and no more; and the Registrar for recording the certificate of naturalization, is entitled to receive a fee of twenty-five cents; and a further fce of

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twenty-five cents for every scarch and certified copy of the same, and no more.

Oath of Residence.

I, A. B., do swear (or, being one of the persons allowed by law to affirm in judicial cases, do affirm), that I have resided three years in this Dominion, with intent to settle therein, without having been, during that time, a stated resident in any foreign country. So help me God.

Oath of Allegiance.

I, A. B., do sincerely promise and swear, (or being one of the persons allowed by law to affirm in judicial cases do affirm), that I will be faithful, and bear true allegiance, to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, as lawful Sovereign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the Dominion of Canada, dependent on, and belonging to, the said United Kingdom; and that I will defend Her to the utmost of my power against all traitorous conspiracies and attempts whatsoever, which shall be made against Her person, Crown and dignity; and that I will do my utmost endeavour to disclose and make known to Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies, and attempts, which I shall know to be against Her or any of them; and all this I do swear without any equivocation, mental evasion or secret reservation. So help me God.

CHAPTER XVII.

PARTNERSHIP.

A partnership is an association of two or more persons contributing, in equal or unequal proportions, money, labor, skill, care, attendance or services in the prosecution of some trade or manufacture or the accomplishment of any other common object, upon the express, or implied understanding that the profit, or loss, attending the transaction, is be be shared among the parties in certain proportions. The contract of partnership is founded wholly on the consent of parties, and may be created by their acts and deeds, and their commnon participation in the profit and loss of a trade or business, or of a particular speculation or adventure, as well as through the medium of an express contract. If parties are not to share the profit and loss, there can be no partnership as between themselves whatever may be their apparent situation and position as regards the public. If one man joins another in the furtherance of à particular undertaking, and contributes work and labor, services and skill, towards the attainment of the common object, upon the understanding that the remuneration is to depend upon the realization of

profits, so that, if the business is a losing business, he is to get nothing, he stands in the position of a partner in the undertaking, and not in that of a laborer or servant for hire. But a person who merely receives out of the profits the wages of labor, or a commission, as a hired servant or agent, such as a factor, foreman, clerk or manager, and who has no interest or property in the capital stock of the business, is not a partner in the concern, although his wages may be calculated according to a fluctuating standard, and may rise and fall with the accruing profits.

A partner in a private commercial partnership (not being a public joint-stock company with transferable shares) cannot introduce a stranger into the firm, as a partner, without the consent of all the members of the co-partnership.

Every person who stipulates with another for a share of the profits of a business, is a partner in the business as regards the public and third parties, and liable as such, whatever may be the private stipulations and agreements between him and the parties who appear to the world as the managers and conductors of the business; because the profits form a portion of the fund on which the creditors have a right to rely for payment.

A general partnership is one formed for trade or business generally, without limitations. A special partnership is one in which the joint interest extends only to a particular concern, as, for example, in the erection of a hotel. A limited partnership is one in which one or more of the partners put in a certain

amount of capital, which is liable for the contracts of the firm; but beyond that amount the party advancing is not liable.

A person who lends his name as a partner, or who suffers his name to continue in the firm after he has actually ceased to be a partner, is still responsible to third persons as a partner.

A partner may buy and sell partnership effects; make contracts in reference to the business of the firm; pay and receive money; draw and indorse and accept bills and notes; and all acts of such a nature, even though they be upon his own private account, will bind the other partners, if connected with matters apparently having reference to the business of the firm, and transacted with other parties, ignorant of the fact that such dealings are for the particular partner's private account. So also the representation, or misrepresentation, of any fact, made in any partnership transaction by one partner, or the commission of any fraud in such transaction, will bind the entire firm, even though the other partners may have no connection with, or knowledge of, the same.

Dormant and secret partners, whose names do not appear to the world, may be made responsible for the engagements of a trading firm of which they are members.

Persons may become clothed with the legal liabilities and responsibilities of partners as regards the public and third parties, by holding themselves out to the world as partners, as well as by contracting the legal relationship of partners among them