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Assessments has set up a whole series of classification.

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What was the property used for? What was it used for? How

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much fertilizer was used? Who is tilling the property?

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How much money is being expended? Is this a part-time job?

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Is this a main avocation? All of these enter into it. You

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can't write all this kind of legislation in the Constitution

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and do it correctly. This is what the Hanson amendment

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suggests.

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What we are suggesting is that it be this

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classification and that the classification be set up by the

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Legislature. The farmers on the Hastern Shore say you either

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protect us or we will have to go out of the farming

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business. The bona fide farmer in the big county says if

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you don't protect us, we will have to sell it to these land

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speculators.

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We think the way to do it is to do just these

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things: One, you have the classification. It must be

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agricultural. Secondly, the details must be set by the

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General Assembly and then, thirdly, when the questions arise ,

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the courts will determine the bona fideness of the

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interpretation by the administrative agency and the result