New Mexico § 4-3-1 - Original county boundaries

§ 4-3-1. Original county boundaries

That the counties of Chaves and Eddy are hereby created out of all that portion of

Lincoln county, lying eastward of a line drawn through said county as follows, to

wit: commencing at the northern boundary line of the county of Lincoln on the line

between ranges nineteen and twenty east; thence south on said line to the base line;

thence south along the range line between ranges nineteen and twenty east to the first

standard parallel south; thence east to the point where the range line between ranges

twenty and twenty-one east, south of said first standard parallel intersects said

parallel; thence south on the line between said ranges twenty and twenty-one to the

second standard parallel south; thence south to the southeast corner of township

eleven, south of range twenty east; thence west to the line between ranges twenty

and twenty-one south of the second standard parallel, south; thence south to the

third standard parallel south along the range line between ranges twenty and twenty-one

to intersect the third standard parallel, south; thence east along said parallel

to where the line from the south side of same between ranges twenty-one and twenty-two

intersect said parallel; thence along said range line between ranges twenty-one and

twenty-two to the fourth standard parallel south; thence west along said parallel

to the point where the line between ranges twenty-one and twenty-two south of said

parallel intersects said parallel, and thence south on said line to the north boundary

of the state of Texas.