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the Constitution you have defined it, not the Legislature.

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You haven't left it to them for definition.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Mitchell.

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DELEGATE MITCHELL: You have already said that it

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is the intention of the committee to protect those who act

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like farmers, who" are and act like farmers. It seems to me

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that the General Assembly -- here we have a constitutional

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directive carrying out the intention of your committee to

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protect the bona fide farmers and therefore couldn't the

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Assembly define what a bona fide farmer is, carrying forth

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more clearly your constitutional directive?

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Sherbow.

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DELEGATE SHERBOW: If you say in the Constitution

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"by a bona fide farmer," you have made the definition.

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There isn't any definition for the Legislature to make

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thereafter. If you say for agricultural use as we have it

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here or agricultural property as defined by the General

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Assembly, Delegate Mitchell, what is happening here is what

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always happens when you try to do the work on the floor

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that two committees have labored with for weeks and months

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trying to get the language which will fit the problems.