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THE PRESIDENT: One further question to further

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amplify that. Do I understand that your committee in

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arriving at this conclusion considered the colloquy that

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occurred in the Committee of the Whole, particularly with

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the questions, as the Chair remembers it, which were

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directed to Delegate Case as to what was meant by "devoted

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to agricultural use"?

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DELEGATE PENNIMAN: That is correct.

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THE PRESIDENT: Now, Delegate Hardwicke, you may

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wish to pursue the question further.

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DELEGATE HARDWICKE: Mr. Chairman of the

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committee, my purpose in asking these questions is that I

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anticipate that there will be some litigation involving this

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very point, and I think that we ought to clear the record

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as completely as we can as to the intention. Then what you

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are saying, it seems to me, is that there shall be still one

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sole test as to what agricultural property is and that one

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sole test is whether or not the property is devoted to

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agricultural use as defined by law.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Penniman.

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DELEGATE PENNIMAN: That is right.