Note XXIV-64 — Chapter XXIV · INDEPENDENCE OF THE ISTHMUS. 1801-1822.

The motion had been made by the inhabitants of Natá, and was adopted by the citizens assembled at Santiago under the presidency of Casimiro del Bal, the political chief ad interim. The oath of independence included also the condition to uphold the Roman catholic religion, and to defend the purity of the virgin Mary. The full text is given in Veraguas, Acta de Independencia, in Pan. Col. Doc., no. 54, a certified manuscript copy of the original record in the archives of Santiago.