1932 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 22.

defendant, or some one in his behalf shall, under oath or affir-
mation, state that every plea so pleaded by the defendant is
true; and shall further state what amount of the plaintiff's de-
mand, if anything, is admitted to be due or owing, and what
amount is disputed; and if the copartnership or incorporation of
any of the parties to the suit shall be alleged in the declaration,
and the affidavit filed therewith and hereinafter provided; or if
there shall be filed with the declaration in said cause any paper
purporting to be signed by any defendant therein, the fact of
such alleged copartnership or incorporation, and the genuineness
of such signature, shall be deemed to be admitted for the purposes
of said cause, unless the said affidavit shall further state that the
affiant knows, or has good reason to believe, such allegation of

copartnership or incorporation to be untrue, or that such signature
was not written by or by the authority of the person whose
signature it purports to be; in case any part of the debt or
damages claimed be admitted to be due, the plaintiff shall be
entitled to an entry of judgment therefor as aforesaid, with costs,
in f nil discharge to the action; provided, the amount so admitted,
to be due shall not be below the jurisdiction of the court, or the
defendant may pay such admitted part into the court, and
thereupon such proceedings shall be had as are provided by law
in other cases of payment of money into court; provided, that
the court for good cause shown may, by, its order in writing,
passed at any time before judgment, extend the time for filing
such pleas and affidavits, which extension shall suspend, until the
expiration thereof, the plaintiff's right to enter judgment under
this section; and provided further, that the court may and it shall
be its duty to pass such rules as may be necessary to carry out
the purpose of this section.

Thorne v. Fox, 67 Md. 67.

1836, ch. 264.

66. The plaintiff shall not be entitled to judgment under the
preceding section, unless at the time of bringing his action he
shall file with his declaration an affidavit or affirmation—if the
affiant is conscientiously scrupulous as to taking an oath—stating
the true amount the defendant is indebted to him over and above
all discounts, and shall also file the bond, bill of exchange, prom-
issory note or other writing or account by which the defendant is