EVIDENCE. 1399

When the record itself can be produced, either such record, or a certified copy of
the deed, is evidence. Preston v. Evans, 56 Md. 495.

As to lost deeds, see sec. 59.

As to proof of foreign debts and other instruments, see sec. 43, et seq.

As to the admissibility in evidence of certified copies of foreign wills, and as to
wills not required (by a foreign law) to be recorded, see art. 93, sec. 361, et seq.

See sec. 70 and notes to sec. 43.

An. Code, sec. 65. 1906, ch. 26.

68. A copy of any books, papers, entries or proceedings belonging to
the office of the state tax commission, attested by the state tax commis-
sion, shall be received as evidence in any court of law or equity, or before
any judge, justice of the peace or other tribunal in this State, in the same
manner and to have the same effect as if the original books, papers, entries
or proceedings were themselves produced.

An. Code, sec. 66. 1904, sec. 65. 1888, sec. 60. 1817, ch. 119.

69. Copies of judgments, decrees or other judicial proceedings not
required to be recorded, made by any of the clerks from the papers, docket
entries and minutes of the court, certified by such clerk under the seal of
his office, shall be evidence.

See sec. 47 and notes to sec. 67.

An. Code, sec. 67. 1904, sec. 66. 1888, sec. 61. 1890, ch. 318.

70. In any suit, action or proceeding at law now depending or here-
after to be instituted in any of the courts of law of this State wherein a
transcript of the record of any cause in any other court in this State might
be offered in evidence it shall be sufficient to produce the original papers
and proceedings in said last mentioned cause, together with a transcript
under seal of the docket entries therein and offer the same in evidence and
the same when so produced and offered in evidence shall have the same
effect to all intents and purposes as a transcript of the record under the seal
of the court wherein the same are, and such production may be had by any
party to a suit, action or proceeding upon a subpoena duces tecum issued on
the special order of the court in which the same is pending to the clerk of
the court wherein, such docket entries, original papers and proceedings
may be.

This section applied. Johnson v. Johnson, 105 Md. 89; Miller v. Matthews, 87
Md. 474.

This section held not to apply to the introduction in evidence of original papers
from one court of Baltimore city in case pending in another court of said city—see
act, 1898, ch. 123 (Baltimore city charter), sec. 388. Calvert Bank v. Katz, 102
Md. 62.

As to the production in evidence of original will, see art. 93, sec. 365.

Presumptions of Survivorship.

1920, ch. 108, sec. 68.

71. If several persons respectively entitled to inherit from one another
should, after the passage of this Act, perish in the same calamity such as a
wreck, collision, battle, conflagration, flood, earthquake, storm or accident,
and it is not shown who died first, and there are no particular circumstances