9. (1) The declaration to be transmitted to the prothonotary under the Civil Code by all persons associated in partnership in Québec for trading, manufacturing or mechanical purposes, or for the purpose of construction of roads, dams, bridges or other works, or for purposes of colonization, or of settlement or of land traffic, shall be signed by the several members of such partnership, and if any of the said members be absent from Québec at the time, then by the members present, in their own names and for their absent co-members, under their special authority to that effect.
(2) Such declaration shall be according to form 2, and shall contain the name in full, calling and residence of every partner, and the name, style or firm name under which they carry on or intend to carry on such business.
(3) It shall state the time during which the partnership has existed, and declare that the persons therein named are the only members of such partnership.
(4) Such declaration shall be filed within fifteen days after the formation of the partnership, and a similar declaration shall be filed in like manner when and so often as any change or alteration takes place in the membership thereof, or in the name, style or firm name under which they intend to carry on business.
(5) Such declaration shall be completed, mutatismutandis, by a company pursuing, in partnership with any other person, one of the purposes mentioned in subsection 1.