Proof of the publication of any such legal notice or advertisement may be made by the affidavit of the printer, business manager, editor, publisher or proprietor of the newspaper in which the publication is made, or by any other competent person who has personal knowledge of the essential facts, which affidavit, in addition to the other matters required by law to be set forth therein, shall state that such notice or advertisement was published in a newspaper duly qualified for that purpose within the meaning of this act [14-11-1 to 14-11-4, 14-11-7, 14-11-8 N.M. Stat. Ann.], and that payment therefore has been made or assessed as court costs.