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classifications of property that one class shall be

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agricultural property devoted to agriculture use only amply

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illustrates the fact that this is a legislative matter and

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not a constitutional matter. However strongly I feel about

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this, I believe that this Convention by the action of the

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Committee of the Whole has already made up its mind that it

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is going to give this particular tax boondoggle and that

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in such a situation, although I don't like it, I feel con-

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strained against offering an amendment to do again what was

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defeated in the Committee of the Whole. Therefore, I have

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proposed an amendment which I believe makes it possible for

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this Convention to do what the Finance Committee says it

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intends that we do and what I believe the Committee of the

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Whole intended to do.

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To make my point, I think it is necessary to refer

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you to the record of the debate on this subject that took

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place in the Committee of the Whole in which the spokesman

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for the committee at that time said, and I quote, "I want

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to make it perfectly clear on the record that the intention

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of this provision is to permit the definitional power of the

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General Assembly to control what is or what is not a bona