Executive Order 5705—Designating Honorable Adolph G. Wolf to Perform Temporarily the Duties of the Judge of the District Court of the United States for Porto Rico

Whereas it appears that the Honorable Ira K. Wells, Judge of the District Court of the United States for Porto Rico, will be absent from his district at certain periods during the present calendar year:

Now, therefore, in pursuance of the authority vested in me by section 41 of the act of March 2, 1917 (39 Stat. 966), to provide a civil government for Porto Rico, and for other purposes, it is hereby ordered that the Honorable Adolph G. Wolf, Associate Justice of the Porto Rico Supreme Court, be, and he is hereby, designated, authorized, and empowered to perform the duties of the office of Judge of the District Court of the United States for Porto Rico, and to sign all necessary papers and records as the acting judge of said court, during the absence of the judge thereof, and until such absence is removed.

HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,
September 3, 1931.