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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 DeUa division, at Clarksdale Delta division. 

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

 The southern district shall include the territory embraced on the 1st ja?tao"°division'' 

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

 Hinds, Holmes, Leake, Lincoln, Madi.son, Pike, Rankin, Simpson, 

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

 Jackson division; also the territoiy 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, Jasper, 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, Hancock, 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 divisioa 

 the counties of Covington, Forrest, 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 JMondays in May and November; for the eastern division. Eastern division. 

 at Meridian on the third Mondays in March and September; for Southern division, 

 the southern diAnsion, 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 ^lerks 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 i^ilace of 

 holding court in his district." 

 Approved, May 19, 1936. 



offices. 



[CHAPTER 432.] 



AN ACT 



To provide for rural electrification, and for other purposes. 



May 20, 1936. 



[S. 3483.1 



[Public, No. 605.] 



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

 United States of Ainerica in Congress assemhied. That there is ac^oMmI'.'''''""*'''"™ 

 hereby created and established an agency of the United States to K"r»' Electrification 

 be known as the ''Rural Electrification Administration", all of the ed.™'"' ™ ""^ "^ 

 powers of which shall be exercised by an Administrator, who shall be er^1i™lfo'intment,''erc! 

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

 the Senate, for a term of ten years, and who shall receive a salary 

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

 cation Act of 1936". 



Sec. 2. The Administrator is authorized and empowered to make Loansin st^ates and 

 loans in the several States and Territories of the XTnited 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 



1, ' ./T Ti- 1 pji 1 concernmg 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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