EVIDENCE. 445
9.

Cited but not construed in Em Parte General News Bureau, 162 Md. 648.

Commissions to Take Testimony Out of this State.
17.

A deposition, taken at a time while there was a decree pro confesso against
the plaintiff and when he was not in a position to intervene in the taking of
testimony and was therefore deprived of his right to cross-examine, should not
have been admitted, as the decree pro confesso was subsequently stricken out.
Harris v. Harris, 159 Md. 630.

Where deposition taken in irregular manner, it should be excluded on proper
motion. Bright v. Kelley, Dally Record, Feb. 20, 1935.

Commissions to Take Testimony in This State.
21.

Cited but not construed in Bielski v. Rising, 163 Md. 495.

25.

See art. 72A.

Proof of Foreign Debts and Other Instruments.
43.

Cited but not construed in Musher v. Perera, 162 Md. 47.

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.

51.

See notes to sec. 54A.

1929, ch. 517. 1933, ch. 179.

54A. Any writing or record, or a photostatic or photographic repro-
duction thereof, 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, oc-
currence 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, or photostatic or photographic reproduction thereof at the time of
such act, transaction, occurrence or event or within a reasonable time there-
after. All other circumstances of the making of such writing or record, or
photostatic or photographic reproduction thereof, including lack of per-
sonal knowledge by the entrant or maker, may be shown to affect the
weight, but not the admissibility thereof. The term "business" shall in-
clude business, profession, occupation and calling of every kind.

Admission of compilation of costs made from books of corporation, held not
to constitute ground for reversal under circumstances in particular case. La-
porte Corp v. Cement Corp., 164 Md. 650.