Executive Order 7141—Designating the Honorable Harvey M. Hutchinson as Acting Judge of the District Court of the United States for Puerto Rico

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 41 of the act entitled "An Act to provide a civil Government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes", approved March 2, 1917 (39 Stat. 951, 966), I hereby designate and authorize the Honorable Harvey M. Hutchinson, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, to perform and discharge the duties of the judge of the District Court of the United States for Puerto Rico and to sign all necessary papers and records as acting judge of said court in the absence of the judge thereof during the current calendar year.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
August 13, 1935.