| Show i PENSION PAPERS OF BURR TO BE DISPLAYED Application Has Been on File In Bureau Since Sire 1834 1634 x Washington I Franklin K I. Lane secretary secretary sec of ot the Interior has bas offered the application of ot Aaron Burr Durr urr for tor a n pension to the National museum He lie wrote to Charles D D. Walcott secretary of ot the Smithsonian Institution In charge halge of ot the museum saying that the tion should be he on public view Instead of ot In the tiles Hies of ur the bureau of or pensions pen goons where It has been since 1834 1831 There are four pages age to the application a tion and It Is In as ItS good a n state of preservation as ns If it It had been written a n month ago Mr Ir Burr wrote on vu both sides of ot the paper which is legal size n setting forth that he be quit the army with the rank of or colonel tb that t he be was f enlisted In the army In 1775 when eighteen years old and that at t the time of ot the ilie application ho be was se ent seventy seventy- eight t. t t He lIe r recites that he was vas made lIeu ten tenant ant colonel by General Washington toll that his health t became impaired and J e- e that ho he made mado several attempts to resign ou on that account and his bis resignation was accepted conditionally and with r protest by General Washington nt BP foro tore the resignation took effect erreN the sap 11 i i. i says Colonel Colonel- Burr urr was per pcr to undertake the destruction of a fa British blockhouse on the Bronx rho er er which h he accomplished and tilt then was persuaded to delay bl his reNI resignation l until 1781 The signature is wO modestly placed l Inthe In la lathe the right band corner of ot the application L tion and reads A uA Burr urr |
