446 ARTICLE 35.

Public Statutes and Office Copies and Official Certificates.

56.

Statute of Delaware was proved by reading it in evidence from printed Re-
vised Code of that state. Victory Sparkler Co. v. Gilbert, 160 Md. 184.

1927, ch. 584, sec. 56A.

56A. Publications Covered by this Sub-title. Printed books or pamph-
lets purporting on their face to be the session or other statutes of any of
the United States, or the territories thereof, or of any foreign jurisdiction,
and to have been printed and published by the authority of any such state,
territory or foreign jurisdiction or proved to be commonly recognized in
its courts, shall be received in the courts of this state as prima facie evi-
dence of such statutes.
See notes to sec. 56.

1927, ch. 584, sec. 56B.

56B. Uniformity of Interpretation. This sub-title comprising Sec-
tions 56A, 56B and 56C shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectu-
ate its general purposes to make uniform the law of those states which
enact it.

1927, ch. 584. sec. 56C.

56C. Short Title. This sub-title comprising Sections 56A, 56B and
56C may be cited as the Uniform Proof of Statutes Act.

1933, ch. 317.

G8A. A copy of any books, papers, entries, records or proceedings
pertaining to the office of the State Roads Commission, when certified to
by the Secretary of the State Roads Commission, shall be received as evi-
dence 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, records or pro-
ceedings were themselves produced.

Presumptions of Survivorship.

71.

This section applies only when there is no evidence as to who died first, and
no particular circumstances from which survivorship could be inferred. Sporrer
v Ady, 150 Md. 62.