60. This case covers thirteen processes undertaken in the domestic jurisdiction against the municipalities of Chañaral, Chanco, Pelluhue, Parral, Vallenar and Cauquenes to bring about enforcement of favorable judgments delivered on behalf of the teachers. The municipalities of Chañaral, Chanco and Cauquenes then lodged proceedings against the Chilean national treasury to obtain funds needed to complete payment of the favorable verdicts for the teachers. Below is a discussion of the main actions taken in these proceedings. B.1. Process of Benavides Montaña et al. v. the Municipality of Chañaral, Docket No. 18,629-1994 61. The representative of a group of teachers from the municipality of Chañaral petitioned on August 8, 1994, for accessory execution66 of the final verdict handed down in their favor by the Copiapó Court of Appeals on July 20, 1994, which had ordered the municipality of Chañaral to pay the special non-taxable allowance provided for eighty teachers under Article 40 of decreelaw 3,551 of 1981.67 The plaintiffs proposed an assessed amount of the debt as part of their petition. The court denied the petition.68 An expert appointed by agreement between the parties later assessed the full amount for settlement as CLP 639,168,273.69 The defendant rejected this figure and lodged legal remedies against it. The Copiapó Court of Appeals admitted the objection as filed and ordered the trial judge to appoint another expert.70 A new settlement proposal was submitted on December 1, 1998, setting the amount of the debt at CLP 625,330,489.71 62. The municipality of Chañaral and the claimants signed an agreement for a payment plan on August 11, 1999. This agreement recognized that “the real financial capacity of the […] municipality of Chañaral materially forbids compliance with the full amount of the obligations,” and settled on a payment of CLP 210,000,000 as part of the debt, to be paid in nine installments. The agreement also acknowledged that the payment was only partial, it accepted the assessment of the total debt as CLP 625,330,489, and it recognized the plaintiffs’ unaltered right to receive regular increases in the payments of the allowance given under Article 40 of decree-law 3,551. The municipality then undertook to order the funds from national treasury.72 63. Four mayoral executive orders were issued in the framework of the agreement, extending partial payments in the amount of CLP 10,030,000, CLP 25,950,000, CLP 12,000,000 and CLP 15,175,000.73 The municipality did not pay the subsequent installments, however. On August 8, 2002, the plaintiffs petitioned to have the agreement with the municipality vacated due to non- 66 Cf. Request for execution lodged by Rafael A. Cortés Guzmán on behalf of the plaintiffs before the Court of First Instance of Chañaral, August 8, 1994 (evidence file, folio 703). 67 Cf. Judgment by the Copiapó Court of Appeals, July 20, 1994 (evidence file, folios 687 to 698). 68 Cf. Order by the Court of First Instance of Chañaral, February 14, 1995 (evidence file, folio 786). 69 Cf. Settlement proposed by accountant Gil Bravo Bravo to the Court of First Instance of Chañaral, May 14, 1996 (evidence file, folios 827 to 838.). 70 Cf. Order by the Copiapó Court of Appeals, July 15, 1996 (evidence file, folios 878 to 882). 71 Cf. Assessment proposed by judicial accountant Alejandro Bastias Santander to the Court of First Instance of Chañaral, December 1, 1998 (evidence file, folios 915 to 927). 72 Cf. Payment plan agreement signed by [Alexandra] Orrego Da Silva (legal representative of the parties), Rafael Cortés Guzmán (attorney for the plaintiffs) and Myriam Vecchiola Trabucco (mayor), delivered to the court on August 11, 1999 (evidence file, folios 956 to 961). 73 Cf. Mayoral executive orders 1625 of September 15, 1999, 1369 of July 31, 2000, 2749 of October 29, 2000, and 3309 of December 18, 2001 (evidence file, folios 1027 to 1032. 21