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DELEGATE PENNIMAN: That is correct.

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THE PRESIDENT: And that phrase was not merely

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property devoted to agricultural use but property devoted

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to agricultural use as prescribed by law. Therefore, when

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Delegate Hardwicke says that he is preceding on the

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assumption or premise that the previous language permitted

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one and only one test, namely use, I take it you were not

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necessarily agreeing with that by your answer but that

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what you were saying is that agricultural property as

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defined by the General Assembly law is intended to mean the

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same and property devoted to agricultural use as prescribed

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by law. To put it another way, the addition of the phrase

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"as prescribed by law" to the phrase "devoted to

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agricultural use" did not necessarily mean that use was the

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sole criteria. Is this correct?

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DELEGATE PENNIMAN: That is correct. I think

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in this connection that so far as our committee is con-

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cerned, our function is that of not changing the meaning

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from the floor, and I suppose in some sense a discussion of

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what content is otherwise would be with the substantive

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committee.