---
kind: "section"
citation: "43 U.S.C. § 760"
title: "43"
title_heading: "Public Lands"
number: "760"
heading: "Deposit for expenses deemed an appropriation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/43/760"
units:
  - "Chapter 18 — Survey of Public Lands"
---

# §760. Deposit for expenses deemed an appropriation


The deposit of money in a proper United States depository, under the provisions of [section 759 of this title](/usc/43/759.md), shall be deemed an appropriation of the sums so deposited for the objects contemplated by said section, and the [Secretary](/usc/43/31b.md?p=7) of the Treasury is authorized to cause the sums so deposited to be placed to the credit of the proper appropriations for the surveying service; but any excesses in such sums over and above the actual cost of the [surveys](/usc/43/31b.md?p=10), comprising all expenses incident thereto, for which they were severally deposited, shall be repaid to the depositors respectively.


## Source credit

(R.S. § 2402.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

R.S. § 2402 derived from Res. July 1, 1864, No. 60, 13 Stat. 414.