Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association FOR THE YEAR ENDING September 13, 1917 Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association FOR THE YEAR ENDING September 13, 1917 OFFICERS FOR 1917-1918 PRESIDENT Rev. A. F. Schauffler, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS Rt. Rev. William Lawrence Dr. Robert Abbe Dr. Augustus Thorndike SECRETARY H. M. Conners TREASURER F. C. Lynam Standing Committees FINANCE COMMITTEE L. A. Austin, Chairman Henry Lane Eno Fred C. Lynam Thomas Searls VILLAGE COMMITTEE Mrs. John I. Kane, Chairman Miss Belle B. Gurnee Miss Sarah Lawrence Mrs. Fred C. Lynam Mrs. C. F. Ostrander Dr. Augustus Thorndike J. Alden Morse Miss Louise Deasy Miss Harriet V. Ogden Miss Augusta McCagg Miss Mary Opdycke Miss Fanny Norris GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE Mrs. Frank B. Rowell 4 COMMITTEES SANITARY COMMITTEE Dr. Robert Abbe, Chairman Dr. G. R. Hagerthy Dr. J. H. Patten Dr. F. Fremont-Smith Dr. R. G. Higgins Dr. Horace S. Stokes Dr. C. C. Morrison Dr. J. Madison Taylor Dr. E. J. Morrison Dr. George A. Phillips Dr. R. W. Wakefield ROADSIDE COMMITTEE Miss Harriet V. Ogden, Chairman George B. Dorr Mrs. John C. Livingston Mrs. John Harrison L. A. Austin Mrs. John S. Kennedy Henry Lane Eno Mrs. John Markoe Miss M. M. Ostrander ROADS AND PATHS COMMITTEE Frederick D. Weeks, Chairman Mr. A. M. Young Dr. J. Madison Taylor Miss Mary C. Coles Miss Agnes Carpenter Miss Eloise Derby George D. Dorr Mrs. W. P. Draper Howard O. Sturgis Mr. Courtland Falmer L. E. Opdycke Miss Mary Palmer Andrew E. Liscomb Richard W. Hale Miss Mary M. Ostrander VILLAGE GREEN COMMITTEE Mrs. John Harrison, Chairman George B. Dorr Fred C. Lynam Miss Fanny Norris Mrs. William B. Rice Mrs. F. E. Sherman Miss Louisa Minot Miss Augusta McCagg Miss Opdycke MILK COMMITTEE Dave Hennen Morris, Chairman Dr. Robert Abbe Dr. Nathaniel Gildersleeve Dr. C. C. Morrison Dr. R. W. Wakefield GLEN MARY PARK COMMITTEE Dr. Augustus Thorndike George B. Dorr Mrs. John Harrison COMMITTEES 5 SPECIAL COMMITTEES WOODBURY PARK COMMITTEE Mrs. Frank B. Rowell, Chairman L. A. Austin Mr. Frank B. Rowell F. C. Lynam Mrs. A. Howard Hinkle COMMITTEE ON SURVEY OF TOWN Miss Charlotte S. Baker, Chairman Mrs. Max Farrand 6 TREASURER'S REPORT TREASURER'S REPORT Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association For the fiscal year ending September 13, 1917 RECEIPTS Dues and General Donations $ 952.00 Special Donations: For Paths, Miss Agnes Carpenter . 25.00 Mr. F. Delano Weekes. 25.00 Mr. S. T. Gilford 2.00 Total Dues and Donations $1004.00 Income from Mary F. Higgins Trust Fund 14.90 Interest on $2000 Investment 73.68 Interest on $5000 Investment 250.00 Interest on Bank Account 48.92 From Sale of Path Guides 15.60 $1407.10 Balance on hand Sept. 14, 1916 2693.74 $4100.84 PAYMENTS Roads and Paths Committee $ 508.72 Village Green Committee 238.57 Village Committee 504.10 Woodbury Park Committee 3.00 Mary F. Higgins Trust Fund 6.80 Printing and Postage 91.15 Secretary's Salary 50.00 Canvassing, 1917 32.00 Miscellaneous 1.75 1436.09 Balance on hand Sept. 13, 1917 $2664.75 TREASURER'S REPORT 7 The Association owns $5000 of Rodick Realty com- pany Bonds purchased with the legacy from the late Waldron Bates. The Association owns $300 par value Bar Harbor Water Company stock. The Association has on deposit bearing interest $1700. FRED C. LYNAM, Treasurer. 8 FINANCE COMMITTEE Report of Finance Committee The dues and general donations this year amount to $952. Last year they were $1304, showing a decrease in receipts from those sources of $352. Last year we received in special donations to be expended in special work $441.79. This year we have received $52. The expenditures of the different committees this year amount to $1436.09. Last year there was expended by these committees $1,571.79. We have collected in dues and general dona- tions nearly the same amount as was received in 1914 and 1915, and while our receipts from these sources are $352 less than last year it must be taken into consideration that last year was probably the most prosperous year Bar Harbor has had in the past five years. This year our summer visitors have had more important work to look after and contribute to than even the V. I. A. It is interesting to note that the cash on hand available for next year's work is more than has been reported any year in the past six years with one exception. That was the year 1913 when it was $77.71 more than this year. L. A. AUSTIN, Chairman. ROADS AND PATHS COMMITTEE 9 Report of the Roads and Paths Committee At its first meeting of the year, the Com= mittee voted that no new work should be undertaken during this summer at least. Con- sequently there is very little to report. Mr. Andrew Liscomb has been employed as usual to attend to the repairing and upkeeping of the paths. The only pieces of new work, aside from the routine replacement of lost or decayed signs and marks, have been the shifting of the en- trance to the path up Great Hill a short dis- tance to the east along Cleftstone Road, SO as to prevent its interfering with the site of Mrs. Rowell's new house; and the construction of a new gate and turnstile across the old Green Mt. road at the point where it crosses the boundary of Mr. Puffer's farm, Mr. Puffer having pointed out that the frequent straying off of his horses would oblige him to close the road unless a new gate were built. For the rest, it may be said that the finances of the Committee, like the paths, are in a seemly condition. LEONARD OPDYCKE, Chairman. 10 EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS (By-Laws, Article 2, Section 4) Bird, Mr. Walter L., Health Officer Butterfield, Mr. John H., Road Commissioner Carter, Mr. L. P., Road Commissioner Emery, Mr. Julien, Selectman Eno, Mr. Henry Lane, Selectman Fabbri, Mr. Ernesto G., Selectman Green, Mr. Charles S., Selectman Hagerthy, Dr. George R. Higgins, Dr. R. G. Lawford, Mr. Henry A., Selectman Leland, Mr. E. R., Selectman MacDonald, Rev. A. M. McGouldrick, Mr. Frank E., Supt. of Schools McClain, Rev. D. E. Morrison, Dr. C. C. Morrison, Dr. E. J. O'Brien, Rev. James D. Paine, Mr. Charles F., Town Treasurer Patten, Dr. J. H. Phillips, Dr. George A. Preble, Mr. John K., Road Commissioner EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS 11 Sherman, Mr. W. H., Town Clerk Small, Mr. William H., Building Inspector Smith, Dr. Frank Fremont Stanley, Mr. Robert E., Health Officer Stokes, Dr. Horace S. Taylor, Dr. J. Madison Thorndike, Dr. Augustus Wadleigh, Mr. W. P., Health Officer Wakefield, Dr. R. W. Whitaker, Mr. E. K., Selectman 12 LIFE MEMBERS LIFE MEMBERS Givers of $25 in one sum, $10 annually for three years, or $5 annually for seven years (By-Laws, Article 11, Section 3) Abbe, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Anson, Mrs. Alfred Auchincloss, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Babcock, Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Banks, Mrs. A. Bleecker Bass, Col. and Mrs. E. W. Bass, Hon. J. P. Biddle, Miss Christine W. Bowdoin, Miss Edith G. Bowen, Mrs. Joseph T. Bowler, Mrs. Robert B. Bradley, Mrs. J. D. C. Bridgham, Mrs. S. W. Brooks, Mr. H. Mortimer Burrill, Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Carnegie, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carpenter, Miss Agnes Carpenter, Mrs. Miles B. LIFE MEMBERS 13 Cassatt, Mrs. A. J. Clark, Mrs. Anna M. Chew, Mrs. Benj. Coats, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Cochran, Miss Mary N. Coles, Mrs Edward Coles, Miss Mary R. Coxe, Mrs. Alexander B. Crafts, Miss Mary E. Crocker, Mrs. U. H. Cuyler, Miss E. deG. Cuyler, Mr. and Mrs. T. De Witt Davis, Mrs. A. H. Derby, Mrs. Haskett Dimock, Mrs. H. F. Dorr, Mr. George B. Draper, Mr. George A. Draper, Mr and Mrs. William P. Du Pont, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred I. Edwards, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Eno, Mr and Mrs. H. L. Fabbri, Mr and Mrs. E. G. Farrand, Mrs. Max Gray, Mrs H. W. Green, Mr. William L. Griswold, Mrs. F. G. Gurnee, Mr. A. C. 14 LIFE MEMBERS Gurnee, Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Hale, Mr. Richard W. Harrison, Mrs. Charles C. Harrison, Hon. and Mrs. F. B. Harrison, Mrs. John Hatfield, Mr. Henry R. Hemmick, Mrs. Christian Hinkle, Mrs. A. H. Hoffman, Miss Mary U. Howard, Mr. Edgar B. Hubbard, Mrs. T. H. Hunt, Mrs. Platt Ingraham, Hon. George L. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Jones, Mrs. Cadwalader Kahn, Mr. and Mrs. Otto H. Kane, Mrs. John I. Kennedy, Mrs. John S. Ketterlinus, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. King, Mr. David James Kingsland, Mrs William M. Ladd, Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. Laugier-Villars, the Countess Lawrence, Miss Sarah Lawrence, Rt. Rev. and Mrs. William Leeds, Mr. and Mrs. Warner M. Linzee, Miss Elizabeth LIFE MEMBERS 15 Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Luquer, Mr. and Mrs. Lea McI. McCagg, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. McCormick, Mrs. R. H. Manning, Miss A. F. Markoe, Mrs. John May, Mrs. J. Frederick Minot, The Misses Morgan, Miss C. L. Morgan, Mrs. J. P. Morrell, Mrs. Edward Morrill, The Misses Morris, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Newbold, Mr. Clement B. Norcross, Mr and Mrs. Otis Ogden, Mr. David B. Opdycke, Mrs. Emerson Opdycke, Mrs. L. E. Ostrander, Mrs. C. F. Parsons, Mrs. Herbert Peabody, Mr. F. H. Pearson, Mrs. Frederick Place, Mrs. George Platt, Mrs. A. E. Polk, Mrs. William Pratt, Mr. John T. 16 LIFE MEMBERS Pulitzer, Mrs. Joseph Rice, Mrs. W. B. Robbins, Mrs. George A. Satterlee, Mr. and Mrs. H. L Savage, Mrs. W. Lyttleton Schauffler, Dr. and Mrs. A. F Schieffelin, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Schiff, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob H. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Sears, Mrs. J. M. Seely, Mrs. W. W. Shepard, Mrs. Elliott F. Sherman, Mrs. Gardiner Smith, Mrs. C. Morton Smith, Mrs. Edward A. Smith, Miss Josephine C. Speyer, Mr. and Mrs. James Stevens, Miss Julia C. Stewart, Mr. W. R. Stokes, Dr. Horace S. Sturgis, Miss Sturgis, Mrs. Howard O. Thacher, Dr. John S. Thompson, Mrs. George L. Thorndike, Dr. and Mrs. Augustus Townsend, Mrs. R. H. Trevor, Miss Emily LIFE MEMBERS 17 Trevor, Mrs. John B. Tucker, Mrs. Alanson Vanderbilt, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Vanderbilt, Mrs. George W. Walcott, Mrs. F. C. Weekes, Mr. Frederic Delano Winthrop, Miss Marie Wright, Mrs. C. K. Young, Mrs. Murray 18 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES Dues and General Donations Previously reported $ 79.00 Anderson, Mrs. N. L 10.00 Abbe, Dr. and Mrs. Robert 25.00 Bowdoin, Miss Edith G. 25.00 Bridgham, Mrs. S. W. 10.00 Burnham, Mr. and Mrs. Henry D 20.00 Bates, Mr. S. W 5.00 Bass, Col. and Mrs. E. W. 5.00 Baker, Rev. and Mrs. William O 5.00 Bowen, Mrs. Joseph T. 5.00 Coles, Mrs. Edward 10.00 Coles, Miss Mary R. 10.00 Chapman, Mrs. H. C. 5.00 Cushman Mrs. E. C. 5.00 Coxe, Mrs. Alexander B 5.00 Cochran, Miss Mary N. 10.00 Cuyler, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. DeWitt.. 50.00 Dickson, Mr. James B. 10.00 Draper, Mr. and Mrs. William P. 10.00 Derby, Mrs. Hasket 5.00 Denning, Mrs. Charles C. 10.00 Endicott Mrs. W. C. 10.00 Fabbri, Mrs. E. G 10.00 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES 19 Gurnee, Mr. A. C. 25.00 Griwsold, Mr. Frank T. 25.00 Griswold, Mr. F. Gray 25.00 Hoffman, Miss Mary U. 10.00 Harrison, Mrs. John 10.00 Hunt, Mrs. Platt 5.00 Hatfield, Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. 10.00 Hinkle, Mrs. A. Howard 10.00 Hubbard, Mrs. Thomas H 10.00 Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. 10.00 Kennedy, Mrs. John S. 25.00 Kane, Mrs John I. 25.00 Keim, Mrs. and Miss 10.00 Levi, Mr. Albert A. 10.00 Linzee, Miss Elizabeth 5.00 Lawrence Rt. Rev. and Mrs. Wm 10.00 Lawrence, Miss Sarah 5.00 Livinston, Mr. and Mrs. John C. 10.00 Morrill, The Misses 25.00 Markoe, Mrs. John B 10.00 McCormick, Mrs. R. Hall 15.00 Mears, Mrs, Edward B. 5.00 Minot, The Misses 5.00 Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Dave H 10.00 Myer, Rev. Walden 5.00 Opdycke, Mrs. L. E. 5.00 Opdycke, Mrs. Emerson 5.00 20 DONATIONS AND MEMBERSHIP DUES Ostrander, Mrs. Charles F. 5.00 Parsson, Mrs Herbert 10.00 Phelps, Mrs Austin 3.00 Robbin, , Mrs. George A. 10.00 Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. George S 5.00 Rice, Mrs. William B. 10.00 Rowell, Mr. Frank B. 5.00 Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. John S. 5.00 Ryle, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur 10.00 Simpson, Mrs. H. L. 5.00 Scott, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar 25.00 Smith, Mrs. C. Morton 25.00 Schauffler, Dr. and Mrs. A. F 10.00 Schelling, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest 25.00 Schiff, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob 25.00 Shober, Mrs. 5.00 Shober, Miss 5.00 Sturgis, Miss Dorothy 25.00 Sturgis, Mrs. Howard O 25.00 Speyer, Sir Edgar 25.00 Sheehan, Mrs. William 5.00 Tucker, Mrs. Alanson 10.00 Wells, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver J 5.00 Weld, Mrs. C. Minot 5.00 Dues and General Donations $952.00 SPECIAL DONATIONS 21 Special Donations Previously reported $ 50.00 Gifford, Mr. S. T., for paths 2.00 Special Donations $ 52.00 Total Dues and Donations $1004.00 Received for sale of Path Guides $ 15.60 Additional Receipts Since Sept. 13, 1917 Dues and General Donations Addison, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. $ 5.00 Auchincloss, Mrs. John W 10.00 Eno, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lane 5.00 Hawthorne, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Mott. 10.00 Jones, Mrs. Mary Cadwalader 5.00 King, Mr. David James 10.00 Ladd, Mr. and Mrs. Walter G. 25.00 Leeds, Mr. and Mrs. Warner M 25.00 McCagg, Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. 10.00 Norcross, Mr. and Mrs. Otis 5.00 Pulitzer, Mrs. Joseph 25.00 Satterlee, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert L 100.00 22 SPECIAL DONATIONS Selfridge, Mrs. G.S. 10.00 Stevens, Miss Julia C. 5.00 $ 250.00 Special Donations Weekes, Mr. Fred'c Delano, for paths $ 25.00 Total Additional receipts $ 275.00 CHARTER 23 CHARTER LAWS OF 1891. CHAPTER 186: An Act to Incorporate the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives in Legislature Assembled as follows: SECTION 1. Parke Goodwin, Fred C. Lynam, William H. Sherman, Morris K. Jesup, Robert Amory, Charles T. How, De Grasse Fox, Luere B. Deasy, Edward Coles, Serenus H. Rodick, Henry Sayles, William B. Rice, David A. Bunker, Elihu T. Hamor, Addie B. Higgins, Mary G. Dorr, Augustus Gurnee, A. W. Morrill, Ephigenia Z. Place, Francis E. Wood, George W Vanderbilt, Gertrude S. Rice, Louisa S. Minot, F. G. Peabody, Abby A. Pot- ter, Francis M. Conners, John E. Clark, George M. Wheeler, Eugene B. Richards and their associates and successors are hereby incorpo- rated under the name of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, for the purpose of instituting and maintaining public improve- 24 CHARTER ments in the village of Bar Harbor and other parts of Mount Desert Island. SEC. 2. For the purpose of its incorpora- tion this Association may receive and hold real and personal property not exceeding fifty thousand dollars in amount; make contracts to be binding upon itself but not upon its indivi- dual members; and make by-laws not incon- sistent with the law for the regulation of its membership and its government. SEC. 3. The first meeting of this corpora- tion may be called by any of the above associ- ates, by a notice published two weeks succes- sively before the time of said meeting in any newspaper published in Bar Harbor. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect when approved. BY-LAWS 25 By-Laws PREAMBLE Whereas, it is evident to all who are inter- ested in the village of Bar Harbor that some method of united action is needed in order to preserve the natural beauties of the place by the ornamentation of the streets and public grounds of the village, by planting and culti- vating trees and doing such other acts as shall tend to beautify, adorn and increase the attrac- tions of the village; therefore we have formed ourselves into an Association and agree to be governed by the following by-laws: No. 1 -NAME This Society shall be known as the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. No. 2-MEMBERSHIP SECTION 1. The members of this Associa- tion shall consist of two classes: Annual and Life. SEC. 2. Any person over fourteen years of age, by the payment of one dollar annually, 26 BY-LAWS and any child under fourteen years of age who shall pay the sum of fifty cents annually, shall be a member of this Association for the current fiscal year which shall end on the second Thurs- day of September. SEC. 3. The payment of five dollars an- nually for seven years or ten dollars annually for three years or twenty-five dollars in one sum, shall constitute a person a life member of the Association. SEC. 4. Irrespective of payment of dues the following persons shall be members of the Association: The Selectmen, the Town Clerk, the Treasurer, the Road Commissioners, the Superintendent of Schools, the Board ofHealth, the Sewer Commissioner, and the Inspector of Buildings of the Town of Bar Harbor; the pas- tors and rectors of all Christian Churches in the village of Bar Harbor and all physicians licensed to practice in the said village. No. 3-MEETINGS There shall be meetings of the Association held each year on the third Thursday of June and on the second Thursday of July, August and September, of which the September meet- ing shall be the annual meeting of the Asso- ciation. BY-LAWS 27 Said meetings shall be held at some con- venient place in the village of Bar Harbor, of which due notice shall be given by the Secretary. Other meetings of the Association may be called by the president and shall be called on written request of five members of the Asso- ciation. No. 4-OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION At the annual meeting the Association shall elect by ballot, the following officers:- President, Three Vice Presidents, Treasurer, Secretary, who shall hold office for one year and until their successors are duly elected. At the same time and place the Association shall elect or shall empower the newly elected President to appoint the chairman and mem- bers of the following Standing Committees: Finance, Village, Grievance, Sanitary, Roads and Paths, Trees and Planting, Village Green and Glen Mary Park. Special Committees may be appointed by a vote of the Association at any time. 28 BY-LAWS No. -DUTIES OF OFFICERS SECTION 1. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Association and in his absence one of the Vice Presidents shall per- form the duties of his office. SEC. 2. The Treasurer shall have charge of all money and other property of the Associa- tion, and shall report at each of its regular meetings. The report presented by him at the annual meeting shall be in writing accom- panied by an account and vouchers for audit. He shall be the sole disbursing officer of the Association and shall pay out the moneys of the Association only upon written approval either of the chairman of the committee from whose appropriation the disbursement is made, or of the President, or a member of the Finance Committee. Except for usual office expenses, he shall pay out no money until the same shall have been appropriated by the Association. SEC. 3. The Secretary shall keep a cor- rect and careful record of all the proceedings of the Association, in a suitable book, have charge of the books, records, and seal of the Associa- tion, and give notice of all meetings. BY-LAWS 29 No. 6. .-DUTIES OF COMMITTEE FINANCE COMMITTEE. It shall be the duty of the Finance Committee to devise ways and means to procure funds for the use of the Association, by extending the membership, procuring subscriptions and donations or by any other means. If at any time there shall be found in the hands of the Treasurer a surplus of money beyond estimated disbursements, such surplus may be invested in marketable and interest paying securities. VILLAGE COMMITTEE. It shall be the duty of this committee to make the streets attractive by trimming the borders between the sidewalks and roadways, cutting grass, weeding, and to care for the village graveyard, etc. GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE. It shall be the duty of this committee to invite, to receive, to examine into and if possible to secure the re- moval of just grounds for complaints relating to matters connected with the purposes of the Association. In case any complaints received by this committee shall seem to lie within the province of any other committee, they shall at once be brought to the attention of such other committee. 30 BY-LAWS COMMITTEE ON TREES AND PLANTING. It shall be the duty of this committee to secure the removal of dead wood and underbrush and to plant trees, shrubs, and vines, and to care for the bicycle path and Newport Mountain Road. SANITARY COMMITTEE. It shall be the duty of this committee to keep itself informed as to the condition and care of Eagle Lake, both in winter and summer, into condition of the water, to examine the stables, the disposal of garbage, sewers, drains, tenement houses and localities generally likely to become sources of injury to contagion, and to report to the Association. COMMITTEE ON ROADS AND PATHS. It shall be the duty of this committee to report as to the condition of the roads and to lay out, keep in repair and mark with signs, cairns ond pointers paths and trails over the mountains, and through the woods on the eastern part of the island. GLEN MARY PARK. It shall be the duty of this committee to observe the conditions of Miss Mary Shannon's deeds of conveyance of the Park lands especially that concerned with the care of the pine trees, and setting out and BY-LAWS 31 caring for the settees, conveyed to this Associa- tion under said deed, and in other ways to im- prove the appearance and attractions of this Park, and to provide such police regulations as shall prevent injury to trees, land or other prop- erty thereon. Each Standing Committee shall make a monthly report to the Association during the summer and the reports prepared for the annual meeting shall be in writing. No. 7-SEAL The corporation shall have a seal bearing its name and date "1891." No. 8- DEEDS AND CONTRACTS Deeds and contracts shall be executed by the President, Treasure and one of the Vice Presidents. No member shall be personally liable for any contract or debt of the Corpora- tion. No. 9-QUORUM Eleven members of the Corporation or a majority of the members of any committee shall constitute a quorum, and a quorum being present, a majority thereof shall control. 32 BY-LAWS No. 10-AMENDMENTS These By-Laws as a whole, or any part thereof, may be repealed or amended by a vote of two-thirds of the members present at any regular or official meeting of the Association, but a notice of any proposed change shall be given in the call for the meeting. No. 11-ORDER OF BUSINESS Reading minutes of the preceeding meet- ing, and action thereon. Report of Treasurer. Report of Standing Committees. Report of Special Committees. New Business. L.129 [Bar Harbor Historical Society From Find C. Lynam & co