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Avhatever witnesses shall give testimony viva voce in 

 open court, wherever their attendance can be procured : 

 and all parties shall he allowed counsel and compulsory 

 process for their witnesses. 



Fines, amercements, and terms of imprisonment left 

 indefinite by the law, other than for contempts, shall be 

 fixed by the jury, triers of the offence. 



The governor, two councillors of state, and a judge 

 from each of tlie superior Courts of Chancery, Common 

 Law, and Admiralty, shall he a council to revise all bills 

 which shall have passed both houses of assembly, in 

 which council the governor, when present, shall pre- 

 side. Every bill, before it becomes a law, shall be re- 

 presented to this council, who shall liave a right to ad- 

 vise its rejection, returning the hiJl, with their advice 

 and reasons in writing, to the house in which it origin- 

 ated, who shall proceed to reconsider the said bill. But 

 if after such reconsideration, two tliirds of the house 

 shall be of opinion the bill should pass finally, they shall 

 pass and send it, with the advice and written reasons 

 of the said Council of Revision to the other house, 

 wherein if two thirds also shall be of opinion it should 

 pass finally, it shall thereu[)on become law : otherwise 

 it shall not. 



If any bill, presented to the said council, be not, with- 

 in one week (exclusive of the day of presenting it) re- 

 turned l)y them, with their advice of rejection and 

 reasons, to the house wherein it originated, or to the 

 clerk of the said house, in case of its adjournment over 

 the expiration of the week, it shall be law from the ex- 

 piration of the week, and shall then be demandable by 

 the clerk of the House of Delegates, to be filed of re- 

 cord in his office. 



The bills which they approve shall become law from 

 the time of such approbation, and shall then be return- 

 ed to, or demandable by, the clerk of the House of De- 

 legates, to be filed of record in his office. 



A bill rejected on advice of the Council of Revision 

 ma\' again be proposed, during the same session of as- 

 sembly, with such alterations as will render it conform- 

 able to their advice. 



