Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 9518—Designating the Honorable A. R. de Jesus as Acting Judge of the District Court of the United States for Puerto Rico

January 31, 1945

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 41 of the act entitled "An Act to provide a civil government for Puerto Rico, and for other purposes", approved March 2, 1917, as amended by section 2 of the act of March 26, 1938, 52 Stat. 118 (U.S.C., title 48, sec, 863), I hereby designate and authorize the Honorable A. R. de Jesus, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, to perform and discharge the duties of 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, without extra compensation, during the absence, illness, or other legal disability of the Judge thereof, during the current calendar year.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
January 31, 1945.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 9518—Designating the Honorable A. R. de Jesus as Acting Judge of the District Court of the United States for Puerto Rico Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/367987

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