196                              Laws op Maryland                        [Ch. 73

CHAPTER 73

(Senate Bill 53)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 64 and
66 of Article 35 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1951 Edi-
tion), title "Evidence", sub-title "Proof of Accounts", to provide,
except as otherwise stipulated by Rule of Court, that for purposes
of these sub-sections accounts shall include certain additional types
of contractual and quasi-contractual agreements, in any amount,
and for the affirmation thereto by creditors, and for the making
of affidavits thereto by officers or agents of certain corporations.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 64 and 66 of Article 35 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1951 Edition), title "Evidence", sub-title "Proof of Ac-
counts", be and they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with
amendments, to read as follows:

64.

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ANY account for money or goods lent or due and chargeable in ac-
count for goods sold, work done or other things properly chargeable
in account, including any obligation or liability in contract or quasi-
contract and whether express or implied, [not exceeding Fifty Dol-
lars] which shall be sworn to by the creditor before a notary public
or a justice of the peace of this State, or before any officer of any
other State or country where he may be at the time having authority
to administer an oath therein and certified as aforesaid to be just
and true, and that he hath not, directly or indirectly, received to his
knowledge any part or parcel of the money or goods charged as due
by such account or any security or satisfaction for the same more
than credit shall be given for, shall be received as good evidence in
any court or before any justice of the peace of this State, unless the
debtor or defendant shall make it appear by lawful evidence that
such account is false in part or in whole.

66.

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IN
cases where there are two or more plaintiffs any affidavits required
under the preceding sections to be made by the party bringing suit
or by the creditor may be made by any one of the plaintiffs, or if all
the plaintiffs be absent from the State at the time of the bringing of
the suit, or if the plaintiff be a corporation, such affidavit may be
made by any agent of the plaintiff or plaintiffs, or any of them, who
will make further oath that he is such agent and that he has personal
knowledge of the matters therein stated; such affidavit, if made on
behalf of any firm or copartnership, shall be prima facie evidence
of said partnership and of the persons composing the same as therein
set forth, or if made on behalf of any body corporate by any person
therein alleging himself to be [a charter officer thereof] an officer
or agent of the corporation authorized to make the affidavit shall
be prima facie evidence of the fact of its [corporation] incorpora-
tion and of the matters [as] therein set forth.

Explanation: Italics indicate new matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter stricken from existing law.
CAPITALS indicate amendments to bill.
Strike out indicates matter stricken out of bill.