ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 1515

Section 8-A of said article, exempting the Superintendents
of the Maryland Tuberculosis Sanatorium from personal at-
tendance as witnesses in civil cases.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That a new section be and is hereby added to Article 35
of the Code of Public General Laws of Maryland, Title "Evi-
dence" sub-title "Attendance and Pay of Witnesses", to be
known as Section 8-A, to follow immediately after Section 8
of said Article, and to read as follows:

8-A: That no subpoena or summons in any civil cases
shall be issued by any board, bureau, commission or out of any
Court of record in this State, or by any justice of the Peace,
requiring- the personal attendance as a witness of the Superin-
tendent of the Miaryland Tuberculosis Sanatorium or any
branch thereof to testify concerning- the health, history or any
other factor pertaining to any individual who may be, or may
have been, a patient in any institution whereof the said Super-
intendent may have supervision, except in those cases in which
his personal testimony is absolutely essential to the issue, pro-
vided, however, that in any civil cases any transcript of the offi-
cial records of any such institution, duly certified by any such
said Superintendent, shall be competent evidence of the medical
history of any. individual who heretofore has been, or hereafter
may be, a patient therein; and provided further that nothing con-
tained in this section shall be construed to limit or to abridge the
right of any party to take the testimony of any such said
Superintendent by deposition as otherwise provided in this
Article.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take
effect June 1st, 1927.

Approved April 26, 1927.

CHAPTER 674.

AN ACT to add a new section to Article 81 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Revenues and
Taxes," sub-title'"State Auditor," to follow Section 240 of
said Article and to be known as Section 240-A; said new
section providing for the appointment of an additional deputy
state auditor and prescribing his duties, imposing certain