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amendment. I follow the amendment of Delegate Barrick. As

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long as this is a substitute, I think we ought to have the

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printed copy before us.

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THE PRESIDENT: The Chair quite agrees it would

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be very helpful to have the amendment printed, and if the

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policy had been adhered to strictly we would not have

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accepted either amendment because they were not filed on

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time. This is second reading and we have to make time and

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sometimes we have to put up with conditions that are not

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ideal. I think you can keep in mind the two amendments if

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you will let me restate them to you.

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The lines involved are lines 12, 13, and 14 on

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page 2. Under the Hanson amendment those lines would read

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as follows: "which classes shall include property owned am

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operated as farms by bona fide farmers as defined by the

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General Assembly by law." That is the Hanson amendment,

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the last three lines would read: "which classes shall

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include property owned and operated as farms by bona fide

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farmers as defined by the General Assembly by law."

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The amendment offered by Delegate Barrick would

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for those last three lines read as follows: "which classes