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Show SURVEYORS GENERAL. Although tho house committee on appropriations seems disposed to abol idh tho oflices of surveyors general, and consolidate .public land turveys under a Washington bureau a clause with that object in viow having been naorted in tho legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill it is hardly probable that the measure will bo accepted by ongresi. Tno National Na-tional Academy of Sjieacw is at the bottom of tho scheme, which was concocted a few years ago for tbe purpose pur-pose of creating places for a lot ol impecunious sharps who want to bo fed and cared for at the public expense. ex-pense. There are too many congressmen con-gressmen from stales where the public land has not yet bson surveyed to permit tho plan to bo successful. Evou ucder the present Uw, with the numerous surveyors general, and all keeping tho records and pLiU of their districts iu their respective ctlices where tho public can have convenient con-venient and rcdy access lo them, the delays aud expanses attending at-tending land matters art? nuuoyiug aud burdeusomo ; but with only oue office, and that in Washington, the cost to the people would be doubled and the delays necessarily increased. Instead of complicating mat On, and putting more expense upon the peo ; pie, who aro directiy iulercskd in the public lauds, the efbrt should be: to simplify the former and lessen the' latter. Tho l.isl congrcs put its fcot upon this scheme, and the present pres-ent ono should do tho same, even if a ecorj or so of scientific sharps at Washington ehouU not be provided wi'.h fat offices under government, and be compelled to earn their living, liv-ing, as other uoucst citizens do who aro not drawing salaried frm the national treasury. |