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 1064 73d CONGRESS. SESS. II. CHS. 651, 652 . JUNE 19, 1934 . [CH AP TER 651 .] June 19, 1934. AN ACT [S. 3040.1 To give the Supreme Court of the United States authority to ma ke and publish [Public, No. 415 .] rules in actions at law. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Supreme Court of United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the Supreme United States . Power to prescribe Court of the United States shall have the power to prescribe, by rules in c ivil actio ns at law. general rules, for the district courts of the United States and for the courts of the District of Columbia, the forms of process, writs, pleadings, and motions, and the practice and procedure in civil Rights of litigant. actions at law. Said rules shall neither abridge, enlarge, nor modify Effec tive d ate. the substantive rights of any litigant. They shall take effect six months after their promulgation, and thereafter all laws in conflict therew ith sha ll be of no f urther force or effe ct. Rules in equity and SEC. 2 . T he court may at any time u nite the gener al rules pre- law may be united. scribed by it for cases in equity with those in actions at law so as Pro vi so' to secure one form of civil action and procedure for both : Provided, Right of trial by however, That in such union of rules the right of trial by jury as 1117y at common law and declared by the seventh amendment to the Con- Effec tive date of stitution shall be preserved to the parties inviolate. Such united united rules. rules shall not take effect until they shall have been reported to Congress by the Attorney General at the beginning of a regular session thereof and until after the close of such session. Approved, June 19, 1934. June 19, 1934. [S. 3285 .] [Public, No. 416.] Commu nicat ions Act of 1934. Purposes of Act. Federal Communica- tions Commission cre- ated. Application of Act. [CH AP TER 652 .1 AN ACT To provide for the regulation of interstate and for eig n com mu nic at ion by wire or radio, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States o f America in Congress assembled, TITLE I-GENERAL PROVISIONS PUR PO SES OF ACT C REATI ON OF FEDE RAL C OMMUN ICATI ONS C OMMIS SION SECTION 1. For the purpose of regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make avail- able, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, Nation-wide, and world-wide wire and radio communica- tion service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, and for the purpose of securing a more effective execution of this policy by centralizing authority heretofore granted by law to several agencies and by granting addi- tion al a utho rity wit h re spec t to int erst ate and fore ign comm erce in wire and radio communication, there is hereby created a commission to be known as the " Federal Communications Commission ", which shall be constituted as hereinafter provided, and which shall execute and enforce the provisions of this Act. AP PLICA TION OF ACT To interstate ana SEC. 2, foreign c rstate ca- (a) The provisions of this Act shall apply to all interstate t ion ; tra nsmis sion of and foreign communication by wire or radio and all interstate and energy b y radio. foreign transm ission of ene rgy by radio, which origina tes and/or plicablens to whom ap- is received within the United States, and to all persons engaged within the United States in such communication or such transmis- sion of energy by radio, and to the licensing and regulating of all