Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bar harbor Village Improvement Association = 1903 sourteenth Annual "Report J of the harbor Village Improvement Association = 1903 0 0 PRESS OF W. H. SHERMAN, BAR HARBOR, 1903. OFFICERS FOR 1903-1904. President : PARK GODWIN. Vice-Presidents : L. B. DEASY, JOHN S. KENNEDY, RIGHT Rev. WM. LAWRENCE. Treasurer: F. C. LYNAM. Secretary: A. H. LYNAM. Board of Managers: Dr. Robert Amory, Mrs. Longstreth, Mrs. Robert Amory, Mrs.Lea Mcllvaine Luquer, Mrs. A. C. Barney, F. C. Lynam, Waldron Bates, A. H. Lynam, Edward Coles, Mrs. John Markoe, L. B. Deasy, E.B. Mears, George B. Dorr, Mrs. E. B. Mears, Miss Draper, Miss L. S. Minot, Mrs. H. E. Drayton, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, W. Butler Duncan, Dr. E. J. Morrison, Mrs. Frank Ellis, Mrs. Clara Norris, John J. Emery, David B. Ogden, Wm. Fennelly, Mrs. R. B, Potter, Mrs. DeGrasse Fox, Mrs. Wm. B. Rice, Charles Fry, Wm. M. Roberts, Mrs. Charles Fry, Dr. Wm. Rogers, Parke Godwin, Edgar Scott, Herbert Jaques, J. M. Sears, Morris K. Jesup. Mrs. J. M. Sears, Mrs. Morris K. Jesup, Gardiner Sherman, Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Dr. John B. Shober, Miss Beatrix Jones, Dr. F. Fremont-Smith, John S. Kennedy, Dr. J. Madison Taylor, Rt. Rev. Wm. Lawrence, George Vanderbilt. Dr. Morris Longstreth, 4 THE BAR HARBOR STANDING COMMITTEES. Finance Committee : F. C. Lynam, Chairman. Morris K. Jesup, J. S. Kennedy. Entertainment Committee : Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Mrs. W. L. Green, Mrs. A. C. Barney, Mrs. Hall McCormick, Mrs. Frank Ellis, Mrs. W. W. Seely, Mrs. J. M. Taylor. Sanitary Committee. Dr. J. Madison Taylor, Chairman. Wm. Fennelly, Dr. E. J. Morrison, Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Mrs. Clara Norris, J. S. Kennedy. Roads and Paths Committee : Waldron Bates, Chairman. Mrs. Robert Amory, John J. Emery, George B. Dorr, Charles Fry, Herbert Jaques, Miss Beatrix Jones. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 5 Committee on Trees : George B. Dorr, Mrs. John Markoe, Charles Fry, Mrs. R. B. Potter, Miss Beatrix Jones, J. M. Sears. Village Committee: Mrs. Cadwalader Jones, Chairman. Mrs. R. B. Potter, Mrs. J. M. Sears, Mrs. E. B. Mears. 6 THE BAR HARBOR SPECIAL COMMITTEES. Committee on Bicycle Paths und Newport Mt. Road: George B. Dorr. Committee on Parks: Dr. J. Madison Taylor. Committee on Shannon Park: Dr. Robert Amory, Chairman. Charles Fry. George B. Dorr. Fourteenth Annual Report OF THE Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association. The fourteenth annual meeting of the Associa- tion was duly called and held at the St. Sauveur on September 8, 1903. The reports presented at this and previous meetings are printed in this re- port in full. MEMBERSHIP. All visitors to Bar Harbor, as well as residents, are cordially invited to join the Association. No formality is necessary to become a member. The handing in of a name accompanied by one dollar, to the Treasurer of the Association, Mr. F. C. Lynam, at his office, the Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co., constitutes membership. Life mem- bership, $25. 8 THE BAR HARBOR TREASURER'S REPORT For Fiscal year ending September 8th, 1903. RECEIPTS. Balance on hand October 2, 1902, $1,580 92 Received from donations this season, 55 00 Received from membership this season, 14 00 Received from interest on bonds, 100 00 $1,749 92 EXPENDITURES. Park Committee, $ 50 00 Village Committee, 600 00 Roads and Paths Committee, 380 00 Trees and Roadsides ( 6 499 65 Expense, 74 75 1,604 40 Balance on hand, $145 52 The Treasurer has in his hands bonds which cost the Association $2,166 65. FRED C. LYNAM, Treasurer. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 9 Report of the Chairman of the Sanitary Committee. The Chairman of the Sanitary Committee begs to report that he has been required to call few meetings because the Board of Health now con- sists of such able, efficient men that most pro- blems are foreseen and questions submitted to them are promptly settled. The most urgent subject is that of acquiring By- Laws for the conduct of the Board of Health. At present none exist. The laws formerly ruling have been repealed and no substitutes have been yet offered. At a joint meeting of the Sanitary Committee and the Board of Health, called at the home of the Secretary, Dr. E. J. Morrison, in August, the old By-Laws were read and certain minor clauses modified. Also, several points arose for which additional By-Laws are being framed. The Committee voted to ask the Society for an appropriation to pay for legal advice on this revision SO that the codex may be satisfactory when sub- mitted to the town meeting. One of the additions to the list is a law to en- 10 THE BAR HARBOR force the licensing of milk venders. This import- ant matter was discussed in the report for 1902. A most urgent need exists for better facilities in the disposition of the garbage. The Board of Health has little or no control over the contractor who undertakes to dispose of garbage and rubbish. That which is burned is done SO in such a manner that the odor and the cinders fall all over the town, borne by the wind, and is a plainly noticeable nuisance, particularly obvious in the Swimming Pool, where the cinders form an offensive scum on the surface of the pool when the wind sets from the eastward. The Board of Health and the Sanitary Committee are one in desiring that ar- rangements shall be made by which the burning of rubbish shall be effected on land owned by the town and distant from the village. There is no reason why this should not be done on the land now owned by the town about a mile from the centers, and where the stone crusher now stands (for the most part idly). Here a suit- able incineration plant might be constructed in which not only the dryer materials shall be con- sumed, but the moist materials as well. The difficulties in respect to this disposal of garbage consists in the peculiar political influences VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 11 which endow certain persons with the ancient privileges they have enjoyed in doing with this much as they chose in spite of abundant protest and earnest effort. The Isolation Hospital, called the Pest House, at Witch Hollow, is now owned by the town and is in a very efficient condition to meet all reasonable demands. The Board of Health has just completed a number of improvements. The physicians of the town are urging the Hospital Management to build a room for isolation of special cases. One of the gravest offenses is that the collectors of refuse and garbage, not being under control of the Board of Health, they cannot be induced always to separate the ashes from the swill, as they have been directed. If they would do this, the ashes could be placed upon certain roads or in hollows where permitted or invited. The swill re- quires special disposition. There has been no buoy placed off the dumping grounds, as required by the Board of Health, to mark the place to which garbage shall be carried in the SCOW. The fishermen claim that the dump- ing of any garbage in the bay is hurtful to the fishing. It certainly is a great offence to the waters and shores of the bay. 12 THE BAR HARBOR Mr. Spratt deserves much credit for his good work while he had the contract. The Board of Health has ascertained that a competent crematory can be purchased for about $6000.00 and the economy of this would be great because the combustible materials, now wasted, are estimated fully sufficient to incinerate the moist materials and also furnish power to run the stone crusher. There is much ground for believing that the Commissioner of Sewers should be a member of the Board of Health. He ought to be a practical plumber. Two or three men in town are especially equipped by knowledge of the plans and conditions of the sewers to serve as efficent officials. It is most important that the public shall get a clear understanding as to what the Board of Health has done and is striving to do. They are hindered by the ancient and inefficient machinery of the Municipal Goverment, which is utterly unable, in its present form, to cope with modern requirements. J. MADISON TAYLOR. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 13 Reports of Committee on Roads and Paths. The paths and trails are in good condition. In addition to the work done last autumn a man has been employed for the months of June, July, and August to work on the paths, to put up signs and pointers, and to remove the trees which OC- casionally fall across the paths, and to do any special work suggested to the Committee. Two new paths have been made, the Chasm Brook Trail and the Sargent Brook Trail. The latter on the western slope of Sargent's Mountain in a little brook which runs through big boulders, between high cliffs, opening up one ot the remark- able bits of rock work on the Island, a great slab of granite cut by nature from the mountain side, which at some time slid off the mountain and now stands on edge by the bank of the brook, the upper end resting against the mountain slope, leaving a long gallery at the base, between the great sheet of granite and the mountain side, through which one can walk beneath this grand roof of stone. This trail starts on the old Northeast Harbor 14 THE BAR HARBOR road not far from the junction of that road with the road to Northeast Harbor which skirts the Sound. A beautiful road without steep grades could be built at comparatively small cost connecting this Sound road with the Eagle Lake Road at the site of the Curran house following in part the old Southwest Valley wood road and the western shore of Eage Lake. The path work requires for next season an ap- propriation of at least $250. WALDRON BATES, Chairman of Roads and Paths Committee. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 15 Report of Village Committee. The regular work of the Village Committee was commenced June the 15th. Previous to this the grass in the cemetery had been mowed, the graves which had settled had been filled up and SO forth. The cemetery has been very well cared for all through the summer. Some work was done on the High School grounds. The path leading to the shore and the shore path have been cleared of papers, the latter path three times a week during the summer. Owing to a great number of excursions this has been a more arduous work than usual. The work on the streets has extended from the south side of the Mt. Desert Nurseries to Duck Brook including Highbrook Road and Eagle Lake Road as far as the Kebo club grounds. Mt. Desert street has been brushed and raked up every week the weather permitted. All of the village streets have been gone over from two to four times. The man with the horse and cart has gone through the village streets every morning gathering up all papers and loose material. At 16 THE BAR HARBOR the recommendation of Mr. Dorr the V. I. A. leased for the sum of one dollar a tract of land between Cromwell Harbor Road, Strawberry Hill Brook and the extension of Ledgelawn Avenue, on condition that the land would be cleared of cut brush and loose rubbish and persons prevented from dumping rubbish there. Five dollars was raised by the neighboring residents and five dollars paid by the committee to James C. Grant for having the brush and rubbish gathered and burnt. Inability to secure the lease early in the season has prevented the work being as satisfactory as we had hoped. The cash on hand in the spring of 1903 was $689.94. Expenditures up to September 5th, $636.50. The balance on hand to finish the season's work, including the money collected by James C. Grant and a donation from Mrs. John Markoe of $22.00 is $113.27. The work of James C. Grant the efficient foreman has as usual been most satisfactory in every branch. ESTHER F. MEARS, Chairman pro tem. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 17 APPROPRIATIONS. The following amounts were appropriated to the various Committees for the year 1903 : Committee on Roads and Paths, $250.00 Village Committee, 600.00 Bicycle Path and Newport Mountain Road Committee, 100.00 Glen Mary Park Committee, 30.00 Sanitary Committee, 50.00 The Association desires to express its thanks to the proprietors of the St. Sauveur, to whom it is indebted for the use of their parlor for its monthly meetings, All of which is respectfully submitted. A. H. LYNAM, Secretary. 18 THE BAR HARBOR LIFE MEMBERS. ( $25.00 ) Barney, Mrs. A. C. Gurnee, A. C. Biddle, Miss Christine Goddard, F. N. Bowen, Mrs. Joseph T. Goodwin, Parke Carpenter, Mrs. Miles B. Hardy, Mrs. Alpheus Coles, Edward Hart, Mrs. H. C. Condon, Mrs. T. G. How, Charles T. Crafts. Miss Mary Jackson, Mrs. C. C. Crocker, Mrs. Uriel H. Jaques, Herbert Davis, Mrs. Andrew J. Jesup, Morris K. Derby, Dr. Hasket Jesup, Mrs. Morris K. Dickson, L. Taylor, Johnson, Samuel Dodge, Mrs. Wm. E. Jones, Mrs. Cadwalader Dorr, Geo. B. Jones, Miss Beatrix Duncan, W. Butler Kennedy, John S. Duncan, Mrs. W. Butler Kingsland, Mrs. Mary I. Emmons, R. W. Leeds, Mrs. M. E. Emery, John J. Livingston, Johnston Emery, Mrs. John J. Longstreth, Dr. Morris Fox, DeGrasse McCormick, Mrs. R. Hall French, Miss C. L. W. McMillan, Hugh Fry, Mrs. Charles Macy Mrs. Caroline L. Gurnee, W. S. Matthews, Mrs. Nathan Gurnee, Miss Minturn, Mrs. Louisa VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 19 Markoe, James B. Robbins, Mrs. George A. Morgan. Mrs. J. Pierpont Scott, Edgar Morrell, Mrs. Edward Sears, J. M. Newbold, Clement B. Sears, Mrs. J. M. Newbold,Mrs.Clement B.Sears. J. M., Jr., Norris, Mrs. Joseph P. Sears, Miss Helen Ogden, David B. Seely, Mrs. W. W. Peabody, F. H. Sharpley, Rufus E. Peabody, Mrs. Anna P. Sherman. Gardiner Pendleton, Edmund Sherman, Mrs. Place, Mrs. George Smith. C. Morton Price, Mrs. Emily M. Smith, Mrs. E. A. Pulitzer, Joseph Smith, Miss Josephine Rice, Mrs. W. B. Trevor. Mrs. John B. Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir Vanderbilt, George Mitchell, Mrs. S. Weir Vanderbilt, Mrs. George Whitney, W. C ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS. For year ending September 8, 1903. ($1.00.) Biddle, Miss Christine Minot, The Misses Carey, Miss J. M. Potter, Mrs. R. B. Hale, Mrs. George S. Potter, Mr. Austin, Hale, Mrs. Mary N. Prime, Miss Cornelia Hale, Mr. Richard W. Torrey, Miss A. D. 20 THE BAR HARBOR DONATIONS. Abbe, Dr. Robert, $10 00 Auchincloss, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. 10 00 Banks, Mr. and Mrs. A. Bleeker, 25 00 Bass, Mrs. E. W. 10 00 Biddle, Miss Christine, 00 Blair, Mr, and Mrs. D. Clinton, 25 00 Bridgham, Mr. S. W. 10 00 Coles, Mr. and Mrs. Edward, 25 00 Crafts, Miss M. E. 5 00 Derby, Dr. and Mrs. Hasket, 5 00 Dehon, Miss M. H. 10 00 Duncan, Mr. and Mrs. W. Butler, 50 00 Edwards, Mr. Pierrepont, 10 00 Emery, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. 100 00 Fox, Mrs. DeGrasse, 5 00 Fry, Mr. and Mrs. Charles, 25 00 Gray, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. 10 00 Gurnee, Mr. A. C. 25 00 Gurnee, Mr. W. S. 10 00. Hardy, Mrs. Alpheus, 25 00 Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. John 25 00 Hoffman, Mrs. and Miss, 5 00 Hone, Mrs. John, 00 How, Mr. Charles T. 10 00 VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 21 Jackson, Mrs. Charles Carroll, $ 25 00 Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. 10 00 Jones, Mrs. Cadwalder, 10 00 Jones, Miss Frances, 10 00 Kane, John Innes, 25 00 Kennedy. Mr. John S. 100 00 Ketterlinus, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. 10 00 Leiter, Mrs. M. 10 00 Livingston, Mr. Johnston, 25 00 Livingston, Mr. and Mrs. John C. 25 00 Maitland, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander, 25 00 May, Mrs. 5 00 Minot, The Misses, 10 00 Mitchell, Dr. S. Weir, 25 00 Morrill, The Misses, 25 00 Newbold, Mr. and Mrs. Clement B. 50 00 Opdycke, Mrs. Emerson, 5 00 Opdpcke. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. 10 00 Ostrander, Mr. Charles F. 5 00 Platt,Mrs. A. E. and Mrs. L. P. Hunt, 25 00 Rice, Mrs. William B. 10 00 Robbins, Mrs. George S. 5 00 Sears, Mr. and Mrs. J. Montgomery, 100 00 Seely, Dr. W. W. 25 00 Schiff, Mr. Jacob H. 15 00 Schieffelin, Mrs. Wm. Jay, 10 00 Scott, Mr. Edgar. 25 00 Sears, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert, 25 00 Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, 25 00 Smith, Mr. C. Morton, 20 00 Smith, Mrs. Edward A. 10 00 22 THE BAR HARBOR Stevens, Miss Julia C. $ 5.00 Thorndike, Mrs. Quincy, 15 00 Tucker, Mr. Alanson, 10 00 Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Alexander, 5 00 Wright. Mrs. C. K. 10 00 VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 23 CHARTER. CHAPTER CLXXXVI. 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 Godwin, Fred C. Lynam, William H. Sherman, Morris K. Jesup, Robert Amory, Charles T. How, DeGrasse 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, Iphigenia Z. Place, Frances E. Wood, George W. Vanderbilt, Gertrude S. Rice, Louise S. Minot, F. G.Peabody, Abby A. Potter, Francis M. Conners, John E. Clark, George M. Wheeler, Eugene B. Richards, and their associates and successors, are hereby in- corporated under the name of the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association, for the purpose 24 THE BAR HARBOR of instituting and maintaining public improvements in the village of Bar Harbor and other parts of Mount Desert Island. SECTION 2. For the purpose of its incorporation 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 none upon its individual members : and to make by-laws not inconsistent with law for the regulation of its membership and its govern- ment. SECTION 3. The first meeting of this corpora- tion may be called by any one of the above associates, by a notice published two weeks suc- cessively before the time of said meeting in any newspaper published at Bar Harbor. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect when ap- proved. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 25 BY-LAWS. PREAMBLE. WHEREAS, It is evident to all who are interest- ed in the village of Bar Harbor that some method of united action is needed in order to preserve the natural beauties of the place and to encourage artificial improvements by the ornamentation of the streets and public grounds of the village, by planting and cultivating trees, erecting tasteful buildings, clearing and repairing sidewalks, lighting streets, and doing such other acts as shall tend to beautify, adorn and be for the convenience of the village : therefore we the undersigned, have formed purselves into an association and agree to be governed by the following By-Laws : NO. 1. NAME. The Society shall be known as the BAR HAR- BOR VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. NO. 2. BOARD OF MANAGERS. The Board of Managers shall consist of not less than thirty nor more than fifty members, of whom 26 THE BAR HARBOR one-half may be ladies and all of whom shall be elected by ballot or other method provided by vote of the corporation at the annual meeting, and shall hold office until their successors are elected. They shall hold a regular meeting on the second Tues- day in July, August and September of each year, at which meetings reports shall be presented by the Treasurer and by the Standing Committees. Special meetings may be called by the Chairman or by one of the Vice-Presidents. The President and Secretary of the Association shall act as Chairman and Secretary of the Board of Managers, and shall be ex-officio members of all standing committees. The Board shall have power to fill vacancies in its own number or of officers occur- ring during the year. This Board shall, except as herein provided, exercise all the powers of the corporation and may delegate its powers to any committee or officer. It shall annually appoint from its members six Standing Committees, i. e.: Finance. Entertainment. Sanitary. Roads and Paths. Trees and Planting. Village. VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 27 These committees shall consist of not less than three nor more than seven members of the Board; but the Entertainment Committee shall have power to add to its members from the managers or from the Annual Members of the Association. NO. 3. DUTIES OF COMMITTEES. 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, and by any other means not con- flicting with the duties of the Entertainment Com- mittee. This Committee shall also audit the ac- counts of the Treasurer, on or about the first day of September in each year. If at that time there shall be found in the hands of the Treasurer a surplus of money beyond the estimated disburse- ments for the ensuing winter, such surplus shall be invested at that time in marketable and interest paying securities. Such securities shall be bought and sold subject to the approval of a majority in number of the Finance Committee. Entertainment Committee. It shall be the duty of this Committee to arrange and provide for any festivities or entertainments that may be thought 28 THE BAR HARBOR advisable for raising funds for the use of the Association. Committee on Trees and Planting. It shall be the duty of this Committee, under the authority of the Board, to secure the removal of dead wood and underbrush, and to give directions for planting trees, shrubs and vines. Sanitary Committee. It shall be the duty of this Committee to examine into the condition of the water, the disposal of garbage, the sewers, drains, tenement houses and localities generally likely to become sources of injury or contagion, and to re- port to the Board of Managers, and if necessary to consult with the town officers. Committee on Roads and Paths. It shall be the duty of this Committee to examine into the roads, and to report upon the same, whenever it deems a report thereon to be necessary. and to lay out, keep in repair and mark with signs, cairns and pointers the paths and trails over the mountains, and through the woods on the Eastern part of the island, or such of them as it shall deem expedient, and SO far as it has funds for the purpose. Village Committee. It shall be the duty of this Committee to keep the streets tidy, by trimming VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 29 the borders between the sidewalks and roadways, cutting grass and weeding. and removing such loose paper and rubbish as is not collected by town officials. It shall also have the care of the village graveyard. The Standing Committees shall meet at least once a month during the summer and shall elect their Chairman yearly at the first meeting after the annual meeting. NO. 4. OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. The officers of the Association shall consist of a President, three Vice-Presidents, Treasurer and Secretary. They shall be chosen from the Board of Managers and shall be elected by ballot or other method provided by vote of the corporation at the annual meeting and shall hold office until their successors are. elected. (A provisional election may be held of a Board of Managers and officers to serve until the annual meeting in 1891.) NO. 5. DUTIES OF OFFICERS. SECTION 1. The President shall preside at all of the meetings of the Association, and in his ab- sence one of the Vice-Presidents shall perform the duties of office. 30 THE BAR HARBOR SECTION 2. The Secretary shall keep a correct and careful record of all the proceedings of the Association in a suitable book, have charge of the books, accounts and seal of the Association, and give notice of all meetings. SECTION 3. The Treasurer shall have charge of all money and other property of the Association, and shall make a report at each meeting of the Board of Managers, and an annual report to the Association at its annual meeting, pay the bills which shall be approved by the President, one of the Vice-Presidents, the Secretary, or by a mem- ber of the Finance Committee. NO. 6. MEMBERSHIP. SECTION 1. The members of this Association shall consist of three classes : Annual, Life and Honorary. SECTION 2. Any person over fourteen years of age by the payment of one dollar annually, 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 the third Tuesday of July. SECTION 3. The payment of five dollars annually for seven years, or ten dollars annually for three VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION. 31 years, or twenty-five dollars in one sum, shall con- stitute a person a life member of the Association. SECTION 4. Honorary members may be con- stituted by a vote of the Association SECTION 5. All members of this Association under its former organization shall be members of this Association. NO. 7. MEETINGS. The annual meetings of the Association shall be held at some convenient place in the village of Bar Harbor, on the second Tuesday in September in each year. Notices of said meetings shall be given by posting in two places in Bar Harbor, and by advertising in any newspaper published in Bar Harbor, the previous week. Other meetings of the Association may be called by the President and shall be called on written request of five members of the Board of Managers. NO. 8. SEAL. The corporation shall have a seal bearing its name and date, " 1891. " " NO. 9. DEEDS AND CONTRACTS. Deeds and contracts shall be executed by the President, Treasurer, and one of the Vice-Presi- 32 THE BAR HARBOR dents. No member shall be personally liable for any contract or debt of the corporation. NO. 10. QUORUM. Eleven members of the corporation, seven mem- bers of the Board of Managers, or three of the members of any committee, shall constitute a quorum, and a quorum being present a majority thereof shall control. 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. 12. ORDER OF BUSINESS. Reading minutes of the preceding meeting, and action thereon. Report of Treasurer. Report of Standing Committees. Report of Special Com- mittee. New business. V IA 130