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On the recordMay 27, 1935
I hereby establish an agency within the Department of the Interior to be known as the 'Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration.'
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Democratic · New York

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Executive Order 7057—Establishing the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration

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