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Title 43 — Public Lands

Chapter 18 — Survey of Public Lands

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

Statutory text

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.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. R.S. § 2403

    Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 762

    R.S. § 2403

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    R.S. § 2403

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

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.

Credits

1876–1894 · 4 acts
  1. R.S. § 2403
  2. 1876Apr. 27, 1876, ch. 84, 19 Stat. 38
  3. 1879Mar. 3, 1879, ch. 170, 20 Stat. 352
  4. 1894Aug. 20, 1894, ch. 302, § 2, 28 Stat. 423.
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(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.)

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