MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                                2695

Police or his designee.

(2)    The President of the Maryland Association of
Chiefs of Police.

(3)    The Chief of a Municipal Police Department as
designated by the President of the Maryland Municipal
League.

(4)    Three representatives from the State Fraternal
Order of Police, as designated by its president, one of
whom shall be a law—enforcement officer from a police
force with more than 500 sworn personnel, and one of whom
shall be a law—enforcement officer from a police agency
with less than 500 sworn personnel.

(5)    Two persons designated by the President of the
Senate, one of whom shall be a member of the Judicial
Proceedings Committee.

(6)     Two persons designated by the Speaker of the
House, one of whom shall be a member of the Judiciary
Committee.

(7)    A person from a police community commission.

The Governor shall designate the Chairman; and be it
further

RESOLVED, That the Commission report its findings to
the General Assembly of Maryland no later than the second
Wednesday of January 1977.

Approved May 4, 1976.

No. 62

(House Joint Resolution No. 128)

A House Joint Resolution concerning

Hunting with Muzzle Loaders

FOR the purpose of requesting the Wildlife Administrator
of the Department of Natural Resources to provide a
special big game season for muzzle loading hunters.

Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
the muzzle loader was the prize possession of the head of
the family. It served as protection and a provider of

food.

The grandfather of the muzzle loader was the flint
lock musket. It was a single shot, smooth bore weapon

that was complicated to load. Once loaded and hammer