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Now, this amendment of Delegate Manson's we say to you will

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not accomplish what will protect the bona fide, real honest-

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to-goodness farmers, not those who act like farmers but

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those who are actually farmers because you see there is

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more to it than just appearance and all kinds of problems

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arise and if you could do it as simply as these three lines

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say, then I am sure the State Bureau of Assessment and

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Taxation certainly must be wasting everybody's time

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figuring out 29 to 59 criteria all of which enter into the

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picture of a "bona fide farmer."

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Mitchell, make it just

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one question please.

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DELEGATE MITCHELL: Just one more question. I

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understand that is the reason you wanted to spell out

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agricultural property in the Constitution in order to make

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it clear to the Legislature what you meant.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Sherbow.

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DELEGATE SHERBOW: That is right.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Mitchell.

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DELEGATE MITCHELL: You have used "bona fide

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farmer." Doesn't that express more clearly what is the