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244 MEETING, JUNE 239 1925. ' A meeting of the Board of Selectmen was held in the Selectmen's Room, Town Hall, Lexington, on Tuesday, June 23, 1925, at 7 P. M. The following members of the Board were present, Messrs. Hutchinson, Burnham, Moulton, Custance and Burnham were present. Letter was written to Samuel J. Hume, Director of the Lexington Pageant of 1925 and the same was presented to him on this evening; The letter read as follows; it June 23, 1925. Samuel J. Hume, Esq., Lexington, Massachusetts., Dear Sir; The Board of Selectmen of Lexington, Massachusetts, beg to notify you that at a meeting of the Board held June 23, 1925 the following preambles and resolutions were unanimously adopted. ' "WHEREAS, the Citizens of Lexington have been charmed by the personality and inspired by the leader- ship of Samuel J. Hume, Director of the 'Pageant of Lexington of 1925', who has lived among them and worked with them for many months: and "WHEREAS, the Citizens of Lexington recognize their iddebtedness to him for his assistance in their efforts to commemorate appropriately the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Lexington, and "WHEREAS, the Board of Selectmen of Lexington, Mass- achusetts, desire to express to him their personal appre- ciation thereof and to•extend to him a cordial invitation to visit the Town at his pleasure it the future: "RESOLVED: that the Board of Selectmen, by virtue of and to the extent only that power may have been con- ferred upon them for the purpose, do hereby constitute Samuel J. Hume as Honorary Citizen of the Town of Lexing- ton and as such grant him the freedom of the Town of Lexington in perpetuity." Very respectfully, ' J. Chester Hutchinson) Board Fred H.' Moulton Theodore A. Custance ) of Albert H. Burnham ) Selectmen Charles H. Miles )