[Original county boundaries.]

All that part of the county of Socorro situated to the eastward of a direct line drawn from north to south, from Malpais, and to be the western line of the new county, is hereby constituted and established, a new county which shall have the name of, and be called the county of Lincoln; the line of the north of said county shall be the dividing line of the county of Valencia; from thence drawing a line eastward without interfering with the boundaries of the county of San Miguel; and on the south a line passing east and west through the head of El Ojo de Tularosa; and this shall be the fixed boundary between the counties of Dona Ana and Lincoln. History: Laws 1868-1869, ch. 8, § 1; C.L. 1884, § 303; C.L. 1897, § 550; Code 1915, § 1083; C.S. 1929, § 33-1301; 1941 Comp., § 15-1301; 1953 Comp., § 15-14-1.