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corporated shall be sufficient evidence. Public Statutes, Office Copies and Official Certificates 48. Statutes of the United States, States or Territory, Great Britain and Ireland may be

read in evidence from the authorized printed publica- tions thereof. 61. Where transcript of record might be offered in evidence, it shall be sufficient to produce origi- nal papers.

Competency of Witnesses.

1896, ch. 249.

1 A. No person engaged in, connected with or employed on a
newspaper or journal shall be compelled to disclose in any legal
proceeding or trial, or before any committee of the Legislature
or elsewhere, the source of any news or information procured or
obtained by him for and published in the newspaper on and in
which he is engaged, connected with or employed.

Commissions to take Testimony out of the State.

1898, ch. 399.

16 A. The testimony of non-resident parties to a cause, may
be taken, whether in their own behalf of by the opposite party,
in the same manner as the testimony of other non-resident
witnesses; this is to apply to courts of law and equity, and to
proceedings before magistrates; subject however, to the provi-
sions of law in respect to the competency of witnesses.
Goodman v. Wineland, 61 Md. 455.

Proof of Foreign Debts and other Instruments.

1898, ch. 478.

38 A. The copy of the record or register of any corporation,
which the laws of any foreign country where the same may be
incorporated, require to be recorded or registered, and which
has been recorded agreeably to such laws, and which is certified
under the hand of the keeper of such record or register and the
seal of the court or office in which said record or register is kept,
and which is also certified to be in due form and by the proper
officer, making reference to the act under which corporations are
formed under the laws of such foreign country, shall be good
and sufficient evidence in any court of this State to prove such
incorporation.