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my remarks will be very brief. 1 worked under Dr. Pullen

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for nineteen years. I believe I would endorse almost

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everything he said.

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THE CHAIRLADY: Mr. Burgess, you are here as

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a representative of the Maryland State Grange.

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MR. BURGESS: Right. I would point my

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direction to this question which was raised about the

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legislature nay provide that land actively devoted to

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farming, agriculture shall be assessed on the basis of

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such use and shall not be assessed as subdivided. My

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guess is that the reason that was put in there is because

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of a like section of the Constitution in 1851 and 1864.

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This is just a guess, but my reason is the people in

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the rural districts would not care to see this dis-

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turbed. I don't know whether you want the to discuss it,

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but I think it is implicit and the words below, not to

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be assessed as if subdivided; there was a tendency on

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the part of the assessors to assess land because of the

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largest division of land in developments . So that farm-

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land was assessed higher and higher on the basis, not of

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agricultural use, but on developmental vises.