Executive Order 7817—Designating the Honorable Martin Travieso 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. 965), I hereby designate and authorize the Honorable Martin Travieso, 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 the said Court in the case of absence, illness, or other legal disability of the Judge thereof during the current calendar year.

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
February 16, 1938.