COLBY, ANTHONY. 



COLOMBIA. 



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nnder such regulations as the Secretary of the 

 Treasury may prescribe for the protection of 

 the Government against fraudulent abrasion 

 or other practices ; and any gold coins in the 

 Treasury of the United States reduced in weight 

 below this limit of abrasion, shall be recoined. 



The silver coins of the United States shall 

 be a trade dollar ; a half-dollar, or fifty-cent 

 piece; a quarter-dollar, or twenty-live-cent 

 piece ; a dime, or ten-cent piece ; and the 

 weight of the trade dollar shall be four hun- 

 dred and twenty grains, troy ; the weight of 

 the half-dollar shall be twelve grams (grammes) 

 and one-half of a gram (gramme) ; the quarter- 

 dollar and the dime shall be, respectively, one- 

 half and one-fifth of the weight of said half- 

 dollar ; and said coins shall be a legal tender 

 at their nominal value for any amount not ex- 

 ceeding five dollars in any one payment. 



The minor coins of the United States shall 

 be a five-cent piece, a three-cent piece, and a 

 one-cent piece; and the alloy for the five- and 

 three-cent pieces shall be of copper and nickel, 

 to be composed of three-fourths copper and 

 one-fourth nickel ; and the alloy of the one- 

 cent piece shall be ninety-five per centum of 

 copper and five per centum of tin and zinc, in 

 ouch proportions as shall be determined by the 

 Director of the Mint. The weight of the piece 

 of five cents shall be seventy-seven and six- 

 teen hundredtlis grain?, troy; of the three- 

 cent piece, thirty grains ; and of the one-cent 

 piece, forty-eight grains ; which coins shall he 

 a legal tender, at their nominal value, for any 

 amount not exceeding twenty-five cents in any 

 one payment. 



No coins, either of gold, silver, or minor 

 coinage, shall hereafter be issued from the 

 Mint, other than those of the denominations, 

 standards, and weights, herein set forth. 



I"|ion the coins of the United States there 

 shall be the following devices and legends: 

 1 "pun one side there shall be an impression 

 emblematic of liberty, with an inscription of 

 the word " Liberty " and the year of the coin- 

 age ; and upon the reverse shall he the figure 

 or representation of an eagle, with the inscrip- 

 tions " United States of America " and " E 

 Pluribns Unum," and a designation of the 

 value of the coin ; but on the gold dollar and 

 three-dollar piece, the dime, five, three, and 

 one-cent piece, the figure of the eagle shall 

 be omitted ; and on the reverse of the silver 

 trade dollar, the weight and fineness of the 

 coin shall be inscribed. The Director of the 

 Mint, with the approval of the Secretary of 

 the Treasury, may cause the motto " In God 

 We Trust" to be inscribed upon such coins as 

 shall admit of such motto ; and any one of the 

 foregoing inscriptions may be on the rim of 

 the gold and silver coins. 



COLBY, ANTHONY, A. M., a distinguished 

 and esteemed citizen of New Hampshire, 

 Governor of the State 1846-'47, and often 

 placed in situations of honor and trust, horn 

 in New London, N. H., in 1793 ; died there, 



July 20, 1873. His early opportunities for 

 education were limited, but, by great dili- 

 gence and extensive reading and observa- 

 tion, he had made himself one of the best- 

 informed men in the State, and was a zealous 

 friend and patron of education. He was 

 thoroughly familiar with the civil and political 

 history of the State and nation. Early in life 

 he was prominently identified with the State 

 militia, and passed through every grade of 

 officer from captain up to major-general. He 

 was first elected to the Legislature in 1828, 

 and served ten or twelve terms there. He was 

 a consistent "Whig during the lifetime of the 

 Whig party, and often a prominent candidate 

 for Governor or Congress while that party 

 was in the minority. In 1846, taking advan- 

 tage of a division in the ranks of their op- 

 ponents, his friends pushed him forward for 

 Governor and he was elected, and made a 

 most excellent chief magistrate. In 1861 he 

 was appointed adjutant - general, and held 

 that office for a portion of the most critical 

 period in the modern history of the State. 

 Toward the close of the war he was Provost- 

 Marshal of New Hampshire. Both these offices 

 he filled with rare ability and prudence. His 

 zeal for education was manifested in his earnest 

 labors as a trustee of Dartmouth College for 

 many years; in his founding the academy at 

 New London, N. H., and procuring the trans- 

 fer of the Baptist Literary and Theological 

 Institution from New Hampton to New Lon- 

 don ; in the endowment of that and other in- 

 stitutions by himself and family, and in the 

 frequent and timely aid which he extended to 

 young men who were struggling to obtain an 

 education or business positions. He was greatly 

 beloved and esteemed by all classes. 



COLOMBIA (REPfJBLiCA DE COLOMBIA), an 

 independent state of South America, extend- 

 ing from latitude 11 25' north to 1 37' south, 

 and from longitude 69 80' to 83 west. Its 

 boundaries are: north, the Caribbean Sea; 

 east, Venezuela and Brazil ; south, Ecuador ; 

 and west and northwest, the Pacific Ocean and 

 Costa Rica. The dividing line with Brazil at 

 the extreme southeast has not yet been defini- 

 tively drawn, but it is understood that toward 

 the end of 1873 the Brazilian Government re- 

 solved to send commissioners to Bogota for 

 that purpose. 



The territory of the republic is divided into 

 nine States, which, with the population (in 

 1870) and areas, are as follows: 



