 Afterward, Caycedo was appointed as president of the "“Consejo de Estado”" (the precursor of the Supreme Court) to replace the retiring José María Castillo y Rada, who decided to become a member of Congress of the Gran Colombia.On April 1, 1830, President Bolívar took a leave of absence from Bogotá to the Hacienda of Fucha to recover from an illness.Caycedo assumed the Office of Interim President.