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.
L. R. Boyd
1310 25th Avenue
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 a member of the firm Eaton and
Cottrell, P.A., general counsel 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 to be Person or company from
received received whom received or to be
(a) (b)
Eaton & Cottrell, P. A. $5,972,710.98* ** Mississippi Power Company
(b) Basis for compensation if other than salary.
6. (To be answered in supplementary statement only.) Expenses incurred
by the undersigned or any person named in item 2, above, during the calendar
year in connection with the activities described in item 4, above, and the
source or sources of reimbursement for same.
(a) Total amount of routine expenses charged to client:$ 0
(b) Itemized list of all other expenses:
(Date) 1/21/2000 (Signed) /S/ L. Boyd
L. Boyd
*Includes legal fees and expenses
**Subject to billing
