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[CITE: 43USC762]

 
                         TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS
 
                   CHAPTER 18--SURVEY OF PUBLIC LANDS
 
Sec. 762. Deposits made by settlers for surveys to go in part 
        payment of lands
        
    Where settlers or owners or grantees of public lands make deposits 
in accordance with the provisions of section 759 of this title, 
certificates shall be issued for such deposits which may be used by 
settlers in part payment for the lands settled upon by them, the survey 
of which is paid for out of such deposits, or said certificates may be 
assigned by indorsement and may be received by the Government in payment 
for any public lands of the United States in the States where the 
surveys were made, entered or to be entered under the laws thereof.

(R.S. Sec. 2403; Apr. 27, 1876, ch. 84, 19 Stat. 38; Mar. 3, 1879, ch. 
170, 20 Stat. 352; Aug. 20, 1894, ch. 302, Sec. 2, 28 Stat. 423.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 2403 derived from acts Mar. 3, 1871, ch. 127, 16 Stat. 
581; Apr. 27, 1876, ch. 84, 19 Stat. 38.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 763 of this title.
