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western division, at Oxford on the third Monday in April and the western division. 

 first Monday in December; and for the Delta division, at Clarlcsdale Delta division. 

 on the fourtli Monday in January and the third Monday in October. 

 The southern district shall include the territory embraced on the 1st fa"ks*ljn dfvLYon' 

 day of December 1923 in the counties of Amite, Copiah, Franklin, 

 Hinds, Holmes, Leake, Lincoln, Madison, Pike, Rankin, Simpson, 

 Smith, Scott, Wilkinson, and Yazoo, which shall constitute the 

 Jackson division; also the territory embraced on the date last men- Western division. 

 tioned in the counties of Adams, Claiborne, Humphreys, Issaquena, 

 Jefferson, Sharkey, Warren, and Washington, which shall constitute 

 the western division; also the territory embraced on the date last Eastern division. 

 mentioned in the counties of Clarke, Jasj^er, Kemper, Lauderdale, 

 Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, and Wayne, which shall constitute the 

 eastern division; also the territory embraced on the date last men- Southern division. 

 tioned in the counties of George, Hancoclv, Harrison, Jackson, Pearl 

 River, and Stone, which shall constitute the southern division of said 

 district; also the territory embraced on the date last mentioned in Hattiesburg division. 

 the counties of Covington, Foi-rest, Greene, Jefferson Davis, Jones, 

 Lamar, Lawrence, Marion, Perry, and Walthall, which shall con- 

 stitute the Hattiesburg division. Terms of the district court for the Terms of court. 

 Jackson division shall be held at Jackson on the first Mondays Jackson division. 

 in May and November; for the western division, at Vicksburg on western division. 

 the third Mondays in May and November; for tlie eastern division. Eastern division. 

 at Meridian on the third Mondays in March and September; for southern division. 

 the southern di\'ision, at Biloxi on the third Monday in February 

 and the first Monday in June; and for the Hattiesburg division, at Hattiesburg division. 

 Hattiesburg on the second Mondays in April and October. The cieri;s and marshals; 

 clerk of the court for each district shall maintain an office in charge °^^''^- 

 of himself or a deputy at each place in his district at which court 

 is now required to be held, at which he shall not himself reside, 

 which shall be kept open at all times for the transaction of the 

 business of the court. The marshal for each of said districts shall 

 maintain an office in charge of himself or a deputy at each place of 

 holding court in his district." 

 Approved, May 19, 1936. 



[CHAPTER 432.] 



AN ACT May 20. 1936. 



To provide for rural electrification, and for other purposes. [S. 3483.] 



. i- i- [Public, No. 605.] 



Be it enacted hy the Senate and, House of Representatives of the 

 United States of Ariierica in Cojigress assembled. That there is Artougfe'^'^'""'''"'''" 

 hereby created and established an agency of the United States to Rural Eiectriaeation 

 be known as the ''Rural Electrification Administration", all of the ^^ ™'°'^""''"<'° "<''>^- 

 powers of which shall be exercised by an Administrator, who shall be ers^'apiMintment '"ete! 

 appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of 

 the Senate, for a term of ten j'ears, and who shall receive a salary 

 of $10,000 per vear. This Act may be cited as the "Rural Electrifi- citation of title. 

 cation Act of 193G". 



Sec. 2. The Administrator is authorized and empowered to make Loansin states and 

 loans in the several States and Territories of the United States for " " ""'^^ "" 

 rural electrification and the furnishing of electric energy to persons 

 in rural areas who are not receiving central station service, as here- 

 inafter provided ; to make, or cause to be made, studies, investiga- studies and reports 



.. ^T ,' .,1 1... T ' cji 1 concemmg rural areas; 



tions, and reports concerning the condition and progress ot the elec- publication, etc. 

 trification of rural areas in the several States and Territories; and 

 to publish and disseminate information with respect thereto. 



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