EVIDENCE. 193

search and seizure, the effect of the admission of which would be to compel
one to give evidence against himself in a criminal case.

7.

Comparison of handwriting should be made with original signatures and use
of photostatic copies permitted only where originals cannot be obtained; require-
ments as to; discretion of court. Proof of marriage. Hansel v. Smith, 152 Md.
384.

To fourth note under this section on page 1380, vol. 1, of Code, add Citizens'
Natl. Bank v. Custis, 153 Md. 245 (will case).

Attendance and Pay of Witnesses.

1927, ch. 673.

8A. That no subpoena or summons in any civil cases shall be issued by
any board, bureau, commission or out of any Court of record in this State,
or by any Justice of the Peace, requiring the personal attendance as a
witness of the Superintendent of the Maryland Tuberculosis Sanatorium
or any branch thereof to testify concerning the health, history or any other
factor pertaining to any individual who may be, or may have been, a
patient in any institution whereof the said Superintendent may have
supervision, except in those cases in which his personal testimony is abso-
lutely essential to the issue, provided, however, that in any civil cases any
transcript of the official records of any such institution, duly certified by
any such said Superintendent, shall be competent evidence of the medical
history of any individual who heretofore has been, or hereafter may be,
a patient therein; and provided further that nothing contained in this
section shall be construed to limit or to abridge the right of any party to
take the testimony of any such said Superintendent by deposition as other-
wise provided in this Article.

Commissions to Take Testimony in This State.

25.

See art. 72A.

Proof of Foreign Debts and Other Instruments.
45.

Copy not certified in accordance with this section properly excluded from evi-
dence. Motor Car Co. v. First Natl. Bank, 154 Md. 79.

Proof of Accounts.

1929, ch. 517.

54A. Any writing or record, whether in the form of an entry in a book
or otherwise, made as a memorandum or record of any act, transaction,
occurrence or event, shall be admissible in evidence in proof of said act,
transaction, occurrence or event, if made in the regular course of any
business, and if it was the regular course of such business to make such
memorandum or record at the time of such act, transaction, occurrence or
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