That all of that portion of Rio Arriba county, New Mexico, comprised within the following boundaries, as hereinafter described, shall form and constitute a new county, to be hereafter known as the county of San Juan, to wit: commencing at the state line of Colorado, running along the San Juan river to where the San Juan crosses range line between ranges seven and eight [west; thence south on said range line], to the north line of Bernalillo [McKinley] county; thence west to the line of Arizona; thence running north on the Arizona line to the state of Colorado; thence east to the place of beginning; also to include all the settlements on the San Juan river below the mouth of the Los Pinos river.

History: Laws 1887, ch. 13, § 1; C.L. 1897, § 569; Code 1915, § 1106; C.S. 1929, § 33-2201; 1941 Comp., § 15-2201; 1953 Comp., § 15-24-1.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

Compiler's notes. — There is an ambiguity in the description of the east boundary of the county which may have been due to an omission of part of the wording of the original bill during the process of enrolling and engrossing. The compiler has inserted the bracketed words to complete the sense of the description.

The original south boundary of San Juan county was amended by Laws 1901, ch. 39 [4-17-1 NMSA 1978] and was fixed as being the fifth standard parallel north.

This section was incorporated as article 17, chapter 24 of the 1915 Code. It was not reenacted by its inclusion therein, but was compiled merely for convenience. See the 1915 Code, p. 1665.

Cross references. — For boundaries of Bernalillo county, see 4-1-1 and 4-1-2 NMSA 1978.

For boundaries of McKinley county, see 4-17-1 NMSA 1978.

For boundaries of Rio Arriba county, see 4-21-1 and 4-21-2 NMSA 1978.