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

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

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

 The southern district shall include the territory embraced on the 1st 

 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- 

 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 

 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- 

 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 

 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 

 Jackson division shall be held at Jackson on the first ilondays 

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

 the third Mondays in May and November; for the eastern division, 

 at Meridian on "the third INIondays in March and September; for 

 the southern division, at Biloxi on the third ^Monday in February 

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

 Hattiesburg on the second Mondays in April and October. The 

 clerk of the court for each district shall maintain an office in charge 

 of hinxself 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. 



Western division. 

 Delta division. 



Southern district. 

 Jackson division. 



Western division. 



Eastern division. 



Southern division. 



Hattiesburg division. 



Terms of court. 

 Jackson division. 

 Western division. 

 Eastern division. 

 Southern division. 



Hattiesburg division. 

 Clerks and marshals; 



[CHAPTER 432.] 



AN ACT 



To provide for rural electrification, and for other purposes. 



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

 United States of A7iierica in Congress assemhled, That there is 

 hereby created and established an agency of the United States to 

 be known as the ''Rural Electrification Administration", all of the 

 powers of which shall be exercised by an Administrator, who shall be 

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

 the Senate, for a term of ten ^years, and who shall receive a salar\^ 

 of $10,000 per year. This Act mav be cited as the ''Rural Electrifi- 

 cation Act of 1936". 



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

 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- 

 tions, and reports concerning the condition and progress of the elec- 

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

 to publish and disseminate information with respect thereto. 

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May 20. 1936. 



IS. 3483.] 



[Public, No. 605.] 



Rural Electrification 

 Act of 1936. 



Rural Electrification 

 Administration creat- 

 ed. 



Administrator; pow- 

 ers, appointment, etc. 



Citation of title. 



Loans in States and 

 Territories BUfhorized. 



Studies and reports 

 concerning rural areas; 

 publication, etc. 



