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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Hours of sometimes impassioned testimony on the endangered status of farming here ended with the adoption of county-wide use value taxation by the Rappahannock supervisors on Monday.
In a split decision with E. P. Luke and Hubert Gilkey opposed, the supervisors voted to give preferential tax treatment to agricultural, fbrestal, horticultural and open space land which meets criteria set by the General Assembly in enabling legislation. Under a use value program, qualifying land is taxed on the basis of its
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