trade with Puntarenas. Immediate and reciprocal participation of the benefits and advances that are felt in Costa Rica. State of indigence in which the peoples of the Party are found. Soon remedy to the shortage of the numerary in which they are. Economic benefits for the establishment of tercenas of tobacco in the towns, that could establish Costa Rica, whose funds would serve for any need or in case of disturbance of the order. Creation of funds for public administration, of those that Nicaragua lacked. There would be a prompt administration of justice. Progress would be affirmed in all branches. There would be security and stillness with the new political regime, something that did not happen with Nicaragua because civil war was on the edge. Schools would be created, so interesting to the education and luster of youth. It was of political convenience. There was identity of interests between both parties. Nature itself (it has been interpreted as the geography of the territory) so imposed it. The Act is signed by 40 people, among which the names of Manuel Briceño, Subaltern Political Chief and Commander of Arms of the Party stand out; the councilors of the Municipality of Nicoya, Toribio Viales, Ubaldo Martínez and Manuel García, as well as military and civil authorities and "the principals of this town". In the change of opinion between the council of March 3 and that of July 25, the active participation of the Briceño Viales family was pointed out, which stood out at that time in the social, economic, religious, military and political aspects in Nicoya. At the time of the annexation, the Political Chief of Nicoya was Manuel Briceño, and of the 25 signatories of the act of annexation, 10 belonged to the Briceño Viales family and held important positions in the town hall. The absence among the signatories of Cupertino Briceño, cousin of Manuel Briceño and four times mayor of Nicoya (1825, 1833, 1836 and 1839), who has traditionally been designated as the leader of the annexation initiative, but who, according to Melendez, he was out of the country at the time of the Cabildo. Cupertino Briceño, however, repeatedly occupied the main political posts in the Cabildo and helped shape and profile the town of Nicoya in its first years of incorporation into Costa Rican territory, and went to him, as mayor of Nicoya in 1825, who was responsible for signing