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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 )
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The statement of the local census of 1925, the same being
7804, was signed by the Board and sent to the Secretary's Office.
Approval of the billboard of the Lexington Lumber Company
In East Lexington was sent tothe Dept. of Public Works at the
State House.
Statements were signed by the Board asking that Anna
Dickerson and John M. Bass be placed under the County of Middlesex
contfiact for care of tuberculosis patients at Rutland. In this
way the county requires only $7 from the town for the care of the
patients, against $16.50 the charge from the State.
In accordance with the arrangements made by Town Counsel,
Sydney R. Wrightington, with the authorities of the Massachusetts
General Hospital, in regard to the Lexington Free Bed, the Board
agreed that the Lexington Free Bed should be placed in the hands
of the Public Health Association, and that patients should be
admitted to the Mass. General Hospital through this association.
Pol6c:location order of location on Summer Street Extension
was granted to the Edison Electric Ill. Co.
A true record,
Clerk.
Attest,