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There’s nothing to prevent that ordinance being changed, John Williams said. “No one’s face turns red when we have to amend the constitution,’’ he said. “In what time we have left, don’t deny us the pursuit of happiness.”
Fred Wilting asked to whom the provision for deeding small parcels to children applied. “Could I whack up my land for my children?” Yes, Pete Luke told him, provided he had a lot of record prior to 1962. This provision was for the “old families of Rappahannock,” Pete Luke said, “the poor working families, the tenants, not the big rich landowners; we had to have this provision,” or the ordinances would not have been approved, he said. The planners and supervisors had decided on the number five because they thought that would take care of most cases, Herbert Barksdale said.
FRED WILTING said the Williamses have already “inherited” their land, all they want now is the right to “whack it up.” Once
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