Disbursement s . Mon thl y rep ort qui red . Terms defined . Title . M 18, 1933. a 1582 .] [Public, No . 16 .] Grand juries . R.S ., sec .1025,p.190, amended. U.S.C., p. 505. I ndict ment s, i mma- terial defects of form . re- Presence of clerical assistants of district attorney, etc . May 18, 1933 . [11 .11 . 5081 .] [Public, No. 17 .] Tenne ssee Valley Au- thority Act of 1933 . Purposes declared. Post, pp . 275, 1055 . "T ennessee Valley Au thority" bod y cor- porate created . Incorporators, etc .
Sec. 6. The Administrator upon approving a grant to any State
shall so certify to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation which
shall, except upon revocation of a certificate by the Administrator,
make payments without delay to the State in such amounts and
at such times as may be prescribed in the certificate . The Governor
of each State receiving grants under this Act shall file monthly
with the Administrator, and in the form required by him, a report
of the disburs ements made u nder such gra nts .
Sec. 7. As used in the foregoing provisions of this Act, the term "State" shall include the District of Columbia, Alaska, Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico; and the term "Governor" shall include the Commissioners of the District of Columbia .
Sec. 8. This Act may be cited as the "Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933 ."
Approved, May 12, 1933
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[CHAPTER 31.]
AN ACT
To amend section 1025 of the Revised Statutes of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1025 of the Revis ed Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows " SEC. 1025 . No indictment found and presented by a grand jury in any district or other court of the United States shall be deemed insufficient, nor shall the trial, judgment, or other proceeding thereon be affected by reason of any defect or imperfection in matter of form only, which shall not tend to the prejudice of the defendant, or by reason of the attendance before the grand jury during the taking of testimony of one or more clerks or stenographers employed in a clerical capacity to assist the district attorney or other counsel for the Government who shall, in that c onnect ion, be dee med to be persons acting for and on behalf of the United States in an official capacity and function ."
Approved, May 18, 1933.
[CHAPTER 32.]
AN ACT
To improve the navigability and to provide for the flood control of the Tennessee River; to provide for reforestation and the proper use of marginal lands in the Tennessee Valley; to provide for the agricultural and industrial development of said valley; to provide for the national defense by the creation of a corporation for the operation of Government properties at and near Muscle Shoals in the State of Alabama, and for other purposes . Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose of maintaining and operating the properties now owned by the United States in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in the interest of the national defense and for agricultural and industrial development, and to improve navigation in the Tennessee River and to control the destructive flood waters in the Tennessee River and Mississippi River Basins, there is hereby created a body corporate by the name of the "Tennessee Valley Authority" (hereinafter referred to as the "Corporation ") . The board of directors first appointed shall be deemed the incorporators, and the incorporation shall be held to have been effected from the date of the first meeting
