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Show SURVEYORS MAY FAIL TO GET THE MONEY Washington. Dec. 1". Threatened npsettltiR of ihe surveying system of the general land ofTlce by a decision ' of the comptroller of the currency, r that those in the surveying parties ' could not be paid both salary and al-I al-I lowed subsistence, will be prevented if n paragraph Inserted in the urgent 1 deficiency bill. reiorted to the house, j lm enacted Into law. AUhouRh these men have been re- reiving both the salary and subsist I ence since the first of July, when tho system was put under tho civil service. serv-ice. If congress does not come to the aid thlB money will have to be turned turn-ed lick Into the treasury. Commissioner Dennett of the general gener-al land office says that whllo the law reads the same now as It did when the surveying was conducted undc contract, when salary and subsistence were both allowed, tho comptroller of the currency has ruled that the men employed tinder the new system are not entitled to It, 00 |