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permission of private discrimination, I don't know."
I asked, for example, suppose people wanted -to
get together and form a private Hunting Lodge out on
an island in the Chesapeake Bay and they wished to incor-
porate. This would require State action.
Now, after they have incorporated, and someone
then came along and decided he wanted to join that Club,
they could not deny him the right to join that Club. Is
that correct? Would a Corporate Charter constitute
state action? Mr. Rauh said, "That would be correct, in
Y judgment. I think if the State is going to give a
corporate franchise with the protections, that is the
reason you get the corporate franchise because it has
certain benefits from the State, and, if .they are going
to give those benefits, I do not believe they can then
permit the discrimination."
In answer to a question of Delegate Hurray, "Is
it not a fact that this proposal goes way, way, way beyond
the question of licensee? Is this not true?" Mr. Rauh
replied "It goes beyond it. I would assume that the
licensee is still the most important part of it, but I did