notice, be adjourned from day to day. If the party, against whom the deposition is to be read, is absent from or a non-resident of the Territory, and has no agent or attorney of record therein, he may be notified of the taking the deposition by publication for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper, printed in the county where the action is pending; and if none be printed there, in some newspaper printed in the Territory of general circulation in that county. The publication must contain all that is required in the written or printed notice.

The deposition should be written and certified as above.

CHAPTER XVI.

JUDICIAL RECORDS OF OTHER STATES, HOW PROVED.

The records and proceedings of any Court of the United States, or any State or Territory, shall be admissible in evidence in all cases in Washington Territory, when authenticated by the attestation of the Clerk, Prothonotary, or other officer having charge of the records of such Court, with the seal of such Court annexed.

CHAPTER XVII.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

All deeds affecting the title to real estate, or of any interest therein, and all contracts creating or evidencing any incumbrance on real estate, shall be by deed. All deeds must be acknowledged before one of the following officers, if made in the Territory: a Judge of the Supreme Court, a Judge of the Probate Court, a Justice of the Peace, a County Auditor, Deputy Auditor, a Clerk or Deputy Clerk of the District or Supreme Court, or a Notary Public, duly qualified. If made out of the Territory, but in the United States, they may be acknowledged before any person authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds by the laws of the State or Territory wherein the acknowledgment is taken, or before any Commissioner appointed by the Governor of Washington Territory for such purpose. Unless such acknowledgment be taken before such Commissioner or by the Clerk of a Court of record of said State or Territory, or by a Notary Public or other officer having a seal of office, then such deed shall have attached thereto a certificate of the Clerk of a Court of record of the county or district within which the acknowledgment was taken, under the seal of his office, that the person whose name is subscribed to the certificate of acknowledgment was, at the date thereof, such officer as he is therein represented to be; that he is authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds; and that he believes the signature of the person subscribed thereto to be genuine. If made in a foreign country, out of the United States, they shall be acknowledged or proved by two witnesses before any Minister Plenipotentiary, Charge d'Affaires, Consul, "General Consul," ViceConsul, or Commercial Agent appointed by the Government of the United States to any foreign country, or the proper officer of any Court of such country, or the Mayor or other chief Magistrate of any city, town, or corporation therein. Such officer shall make and sign officially a certificate of acknowledgment, or of the proof by two witnesses, as the case may be, which shall be annexed to the deed.

There are no particular requisites of an acknowledgment, except in case of a married woman. She shall not be bound by any deed affecting her own real estate or any interest in real estate, unless she shall be joined in the conveyance by her husband, and shall, upon an examination by the officer taking the acknowledgment, acknowledge that she did voluntarily, of her own free will, execute the deed.

In case the owner of a homestead voluntarily mortgages the same, said mortgage shall not be valid against his wife, unless she shall freely and voluntarily, separate and apart from her husband, sign and acknowledge it, and the officer taking the acknowledgment shall fully apprise her of her rights, and of the effect of signing such mortgage.

CHAPTER XVIII.

LIMITED PARTNERSHIPS.

There is no law of limited partnerships in this Territory. The

liability of partners is unrestricted.

CHAPTER XIX.

MARRIED WOMEN

Cannot become sole traders in this Territory.

All property owned by the wife at the time of her marriage, and that acquired afterward by gift, bequest, devise or descent, is her separate property, but is liable for her husband's debts, unless she has a recorded inventory of the same in the office of the County Auditor of the county where the property is situated. The wife can make no contract in

her own right, except in particular cases affecting her separate property.

ACT OF 1879.

The wife may, without the consent of her husband, sell her separate personal property, but where her separate real estate is to be conveyed or incumbered, the husband must join in deed, and wife must join husband conveying his separate real estate.

CHAPTER XX.

CORPORATIONS.

Each and every stockholder shall be personally liable to the creditors of the company to the amount of what remains unpaid on his subscription to the capital stock, and not otherwise.

CHAPTER XXI.

CHATTEL MORTGAGES

May be made upon locomotives, engines, and the other rolling stock of a railroad; steam machinery and machinery used by machinists, foundrymen and mechanics; steamboat engines and boilers; mining machinery; printing presses and material; professional libraries ; instruments of a physician, surgeon or dentist; upholstery and furniture used in hotels or boarding-houses, when mortgaged to secure the purchase money of the articles mortgaged; growing crops, vessels of more than five tons burden, and all other kinds of personal property. The mortgage must be accompanied by the affidavit of all the parties thereto that it is made in good faith, and without any design to hinder, delay, or defraud creditors. It must be acknowledged or proved, certified and recorded in the same manner as deeds to real estate. It must be recorded in the office of the County Auditor where the mortgagor resides, and also of the county