In all caufes depending before any court, other than thofe of impeachments, of appeals, and military courts, facSs put in iflue (hall be tried by jury, and in all courts wdiatever witnefles fliall give teftimony viva- voce in open court, wherever their attendance can be procured: and all parties fhall' be allowed counfel and compulfory procefs for their witnefTes.
Fines, amercements, and terms of im- prifonment left indefinite by the law, other than for contempts, fliall be fixed by the jury, triers of the offence.
3K The governor, two councillors of (late, and a judge from each of the fuperior Courts of Chancery, Common Law, and Admiralty, fliall be a council to revife all bills which fhall have pafled both houfes of affembly, in which council the governor, when prefent, fliall prefide. Every bill, before it becomes a law, fliall be reprefented to this council, who fliall have a right to advife its rejefl;ion, returning the bill, with their advice and reafons in writing, to the houfe in which it originated, who fliall proceed to reconfider the faid bill. But if after fuch reconfideration, two thirds of the houfe fliall be of opinion the bill fliould pafs finally, they fliall pafs and fend it, with the advice and written reafons of the faid Council of Revifion to the other houfe, wherein if two thirds alfo fliall be of opi- nion it fliould pafs finally, it fliall thereupon become law: otherwife it fliall not.
If any bill, prefented to the faid council, be not, within one week (exclufive of the day of prefenting it) returned by them, with their advice of rejedion and reafons.
to the houfe wherein it originated, or to the clerk of the faid houfe, in cafe of its adjournment over the expiration of the week, it fhall be law from the expiration of the week, and fhall then be demandable by the clerk of the Houfe of Delegates, to be filed of record in his office.