---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 762"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "762"
heading: "Deposits made by settlers for surveys to go in part payment of lands"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/762"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Survey of Public Lands"
---

# §762. Deposits made by settlers for surveys to go in part payment of lands


Where settlers or owners or grantees of [public lands](/usc/43/155.md?p=1) make deposits in accordance with the provisions of [section 759 of this title](/usc/43/759.md), 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](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10) 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](/usc/43/155.md?p=1) of the United States in the [States](/usc/43/31b.md?p=8) where the [surveys](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10) were made, entered or to be entered under the laws thereof.


## Source credit

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

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

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