SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.
Three year period ending 2002
FORM U-12(I)-B (THREE-YEAR STATEMENT)
Statement Pursuant to Section 12(i) of Public Utility Holding Company Act of
1935 by a Person Regularly Employed or Retained by a Registered Holding
Company or a Subsidiary Thereof and Whose Employment Contemplates
Only Routine Expenses as Specified in Rule 71(b)
(To be filed in DUPLICATE. If acknowledgment is desired, file in triplicate)
1. Name and business address of person filing statement.
J. M. Patton
2992 West Beach Boulevard
Gulfport, MS 39501
2. Names and business addresses of any persons through whom the
undersigned proposes to act in matters included within the exemption provided by
paragraph (b) of Rule U-71.
None
3. Registered holding companies and subsidiary companies by
which the undersigned is regularly employed or retained.
Southern Company and all its subsidiaries.
4. Position or relationship in which the undersigned is employed or
retained by each of the companies named in item 3, and brief description of
nature of services to be rendered in each such position or relationship.
The undersigned is Director, Rates and Wholesale Marketing
of Mississippi Power Company. He files this statement on
behalf of said Company or any affiliated company before
the Securities and Exchange Commission or Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission or any member, officer or employee
of such commissions or before any member or committee of
Congress, which may include, among other things,
proceedings in connection with the Public Utility Holding
Company and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Acts or
in connection with legislation.
5. (a) Compensation received during the prior reporting period and
estimated to be received over the next two calendar years by the undersigned or
others, directly or indirectly, for services rendered by the undersigned, from
each of the companies designated in item 3. (Use column (a) as supplementary
statement only.)
Salary or other
compensations
Name of recipient received to be Person or company from whom
received received or to be received
(a) (b)
J. M. Patton $376,449.39 to be included Mississippi Power Company
in supplementary
statement
(b) Basis for compensation if other than salary. N/A
6. (To be answered in supplementary statement only.) Expenses incurred
by the undersigned or any person named in item 2, above, during the calendar
year in connection with the activities described in item 4, above, and the
source or sources of reimbursement for same.
(a) Total amount of routine expenses charged to client: $ 0
(b) Itemized list of all other expenses: None
(Date) 1-21-00 (Signed) /S/ James M. Patton
James M. Patton
