Printed books or pamphlets purporting on their face to be the session or other statutes of the United States, any of the United States or its territories, or of a foreign jurisdiction, and to have been printed and published by the authority of a state, territory, or foreign jurisdiction or proved to be commonly recognized in its courts, shall be received in the courts of the State as prima facie evidence of the statutes. This section shall be so interpreted and construed to effectuate its general purposes to make uniform the law of those states which enact it. This section may be cited as the Maryland Uniform Proof of Statutes Act.