ART. 35.] EVIDENCE—FOREIGN DEBTS. 699

P. G. L , (1860,) art. 37, sec. 34. 1841, ch. 107, sec. 1.

35. All witnesses summoned under such commissions shall be
allowed the same pay for their attendance as is allowed for the
attendance of witnesses before justices of the peace, to be paid by
the party summoning them.

Proof of Foreign Debts and other Instruments.

P. G. L , (1860,) art. 37, sec 85 1785, ch. 46, sec. 1.

36. An exemplification of the record, under the hand of the
keeper of the same and the seal of the court or office where
such record may be made, shall be good and sufficient evidence
in any court of this State to prove any debt of record made or
entered in any other of the United States, or in any foreign
country.

Campbell v. Morris, 3 H. & McH 535. Word v. Morris, 4 H. & McH. 330.
DeSobry v. DeLaistre, 2 H. & J 191. Owings v. Nicholson, 4 H. & J. 66
Barney v. Patterson, 6 H. & J 182. Drake v. Hudson, 7 H & J. 400. Wern-
wag v. Pawling, 5 G. & J. 500. Brengle v. McClellan, 7 G. & J. 434. Buch-
anan v. Lorman, 3 Gill, 51. Budd v. Brooke, 3 Gill, 198. Bank of U. S. v.
Merchants' Bank, 7 Gill, 426. Hall v. Sewell, 9 Gill, 146. Parker v. Sedwick,
5 Md 281. Case v. McGee, 8 Md. 9. Hughes v. Davis. 8 Md. 271. Harryman.
v. Schryver, 52 Md. 77.

Ibid, sec 36. 1813, ch. 164.

37. No sentence, judgment or decree, final or interlocutory,
of any judge, court, board, council or tribunal, having or exercis-
ing municipal, admiralty or prize jurisdiction without the limits
of the United States and its territories, shall be conclusive evi-
dence in any case or controversy in the courts of this State, of
any fact, matter or thing therein contained, stated or expressed,
except of the acts or doings of such foreign judge, court, board,
council or tribunal; provided, that nothing herein contained,
shall impair or destroy the legal effects of any such foreign,
sentence, judgment or decree on the property affected or intended
to be affected thereby.

Taylor v. McNeal, 1 H. & G 492. Karthaus v. Owings, 2 G. & J. 445. Md.
Ins. Co. v. Bathurst, 5 G. & J. 159. Groshon v. Thomas, 20 Md 235.

Ibid. sec. 37. 1785, ch. 46, sec 2

38. The copy of the record or register of any deed or other
instrument of writing which the laws of the State or country