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Delegate Clagett.

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DELEGATE CLAGETT: Mr. Chairman, I am somewhat

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disturbed by the colloquy which took place with respect to

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Section 6.03 and the answers given by Chairman Sherbow.

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I had understood that with respect to this section the change

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of phraseology to "agricultural property" as compared to

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"devoted to agricultural use" was not a change of substance,

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but the colloquy would indicate that it was in fact a

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change of substance.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Clagett, I think you

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misinterpreted the colloquy. I think the colloquy was

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reasonably clear that what the chairman of the Committee on

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Style was saying was that as the committee understands the

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language previously adopted which was not merely the phrase

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devoted to "agricultural use" but the whole phrase "devoted

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to agricultural use as prescribed by law", that the

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colloquy that took place when that was discussed in the

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Committee of the Whole indicated that that language was

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intended to confer upon the General Assembly the power to

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define the exclusion and not limit it solely to the use of

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the property as agricultural property, and in that context