COLORADO. 



and exports through the port of Barranquilla, 

 from October 11 to November 10, 1877: 



IMPORTS. Packages. 



From Europe 7,720 



United States 11,618 



EXPORTS TO EUROPE. Packagw. 



Bark 1,543 



Hats 6 



Rubber 87 



Coffee 4,110 



Tobacco 1,976 



Birds and bird-skins 2 



Balsam 60 



Hides 259 



Mats 9 



Ivory nuts 2,863 



Starch 172 



Cigars 



Cocoa 14 



Minerals 808 



Specie and precious metals $279,908.85 



TO NEW YORK. Packages. 



Bark 2,431 



Coffee 8,892 



Tobacco 80 



Balsam 7 



Hides (number) 13,147 



Various 16 



Fustic (tons) 16 



Specie $1,275 



From the following decree it will be ob- 

 served that the revolution, begun toward the 

 end of 1876, was finally put down in Augus't, 

 1877, on the 16th of which month Dr. Aquileo 

 Parra resumed charge of the Executive power 

 of the nation : 



DECREE 470 OF 1877 ( AUGUST 7TH), 



By which the reestablishment of public order is de- 

 clared. 



The President of the United States of Colombia, 

 eonsidering : 



1. That there does not exist in the Republic any 

 armed enemy of its institutions ; 



2. That the authority of the Federal Government 

 and that of the several States is obeyed without re- 

 sistance ; it is decreed : 



ARTICLE 1. Public order is declared reestablished 

 in all the territory of the Union. 



ART. 2. By a separate decree, the Army will be 

 reduced to a peace footing. 



ART. 3. The Presidents, Governors, and chief 

 officers of the States, and the Prefects of the Terri- 

 tories, will dictate the necessary orders by which the 

 present decree shall be immediately published by 

 proclamation in all parts of the country. Signed by 

 SERJIO CAMARGO, Acting President. 

 EUSTORJIO SALGAR, Sec. of the Interior. 

 LUIS BERNAL, Sec. of Hacienda. 

 J. M. QU1JANO W., Sec. of the Treasury. 

 SANTOS ACOSTA, Sec. of War and Marine. 



General Trujillo, after having long and ob- 

 stinately striven for preeminence as candidate 

 for the Presidency of the Republic, relinquished 

 his pretensions in that direction, and con- 

 tented himself with the candidacy for Presi- 

 dent of the State of Antioquia, which event 

 was regarded as a guarantee of continued 

 peace. 



COLORADO. At the election in Colorado 

 on the 2d of October, only a Judge of the 

 Supreme Court, and county and other local 

 officers, were chosen. By agreement of the 

 executive committees of the two parties the 

 candidate for judge was selected by the Bar 



of the State, and no opposition candidate was 

 put in nomination. Wilbur F. Stone was the 

 person selected, and he received 22,047 votes, 

 out of a total of 22,342, the rest being scat- 

 tered among several candidates. The consti- 

 tution had provided for submitting to a vote 

 of the people the question of requiring the 

 Legislature to pass an act extending the right 

 of suffrage to women. A vigorous canvass was 

 made on this question, in which prominent 

 advocates of female suffrage from all parts of 

 the country participated. The total vote on 

 the proposition was 20,665, of which 6,612 

 were in the affirmative and 14,055 in the neg- 

 ative, so that it was defeated by a majority of 

 7,441. 



The valuation of property in the State, as 

 determined by the Board of Equalization, was 

 $45,756,170.36. 



A case was decided by the Supreme Court 

 in December, involving the question of the 

 power of the State Board of Equalization to 

 increase the total valuation of property as re- 

 ported from the various counties. The conclu- 

 sions of the Court are stated in the following 

 passages of the decision : 



Looking, then, to the provisions of the constitution 

 and the statute, we are clearly of the opinion that 

 the power to fix and determine the valuation of tax- 

 able property is lodged by them in the Assessor and 

 the Board of County Commissioners of the several 

 counties of the State, and that, when they have un- 

 der the law performed this duty and exercised 

 this power, the sum of the valuations of the several 

 counties so by them found must be taken as the ag- 

 gregate valuation of all the property in the State, 

 and" is conclusive and final as against the State Boara 

 of Equalization. The State Board may, for the pur- 

 pose of adjusting and equalizing, increase the aggre- 

 gate valuation of one county and decrease the ag- 

 gregate valuation of another, but they have no power 

 to increase the sum of all the valuations of the sev- 

 eral counties of the State. That aggregate valuation 

 has been found for them, and fixed by the authority 

 and in the mode prescribed by the law. This view 

 is not only sanctioned by the force of the general 

 provisions of the statute, considered as a whole, but 

 also by the phraseology of the sections under consid- 

 eration. The board is to adjust and equalize the val- 

 uation. This term " valuation" here imports values 

 already estimated and fixed, and must be referred, 

 for the measure of its force and meaning, to the 

 mode prescribed by law for estimating and fixing 

 valuations. The aggregate material with which the 

 board can deal is thus limited ; they may adjust and 

 equalize it among the several counties, but they can- 

 not add to its value. 



The extension of the Colorado Central Rail- 

 road, from Longmont to Cheyenne, connecting 

 Denver with the Union Pacific at the latter 

 point, was completed on the 1st of November. 



The State University of Colorado was opened 

 at Boulder on the 5th of September, and Dr. 

 Joseph A. Sewall was installed as its first pres- 

 ident. This institution was originally provided 

 for in an act of the Territorial Legislature in 

 1861 ; but no appropriation was made, and no 

 action taken to carry out the purpose of the 

 law. On the revision of the laws in 1868, it 

 was in substance reGnacted. In 1870 the 



