1344 TESTAMENTARY LAW. [ART. 93.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 93, sec. 88. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 9, sec. 5.

87. If the creditor on such instrument be an assignee, them
shall be the same oath of the original creditor, with respect to
the time of the assignment, and in case of successive assignees,
there shall be the same oath taken by each with respect to the
time of each respective assignment.

Ibid. sec. 89 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 9, sec. 6.

88. In case of a bill of exchange, the protest and other things
which would be required, (if the deceased were alive,) shall be
necessary to justify an executor or administrator in making pay-
ment or distribution.

Ibid sec. 90. 1798, ch. 101, sub-ch. 9, sec. 7.

89. If the claim be for rent there shall be produced the lease
itself, or the deposition of some credible witness or witnesses, or
an acknowledgment in writing of the deceased, establisliing the
contract and the time which hath elapsed during which rent was
chargeable, and a statement of the sum due for such rent, with
an oath of the creditor endorsed thereon, "that no part of the
sum due for said rent, or any security or satisfaction for the
same hath been received, except what (if any) is credited," and
if the creditor be an assignee, there shall be such oath of the
original creditor with respect to the time of the assignment.

Ibid. sec. 91. 1836, ch. 192.

90. The proof of a claim for rent in arrear, so as to render
the same a preferred claim, shall be the proofs and vouchers for
rent aforesaid; and proof that the claim is such that a distress
therefor might be levied on said deceased's goods and chattels in
the hands of the administrator; but the preference given for rent
is not to impair the landlord's right of distress if he should think
proper to exercise it.

Ibid. sec. 92. 1708, ch. 101, sub-ch. 9, sec. 8.

91. The vouchers or proofs of any claim on open account
shall be a certificate of an oath taken by the creditor since the
death, endorsed on or annexed to the account, that " the account
as stated is just and true, and that he hath not received any part