Note XXV-12 — Chapter XXV · DIVERS PHASES OF SELF-GOVERNMENT. 1819-1863.
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Since 1829 Nueva Granada had been divided into departments with a prefect at the head of each. The prefect of Panamá was J. Sardá. His rule was despotic, involving the abuse of prominent citizens, and levying a forced loan for pretended defence of the Isthmus. Sardá, J., Decreto, May 25, 1829. He was executed at Bogotá in 1833 under sentence of the law for a plot to murder the president. Necrología, in El Constitucional del Istmo.