[Original county boundaries.]

All that portion of the territory embraced within the following boundaries, to wit: on the north and east by the limits of the territory of New Mexico; on the south by the northern limits of the county of San Miguel; and on the west by the tops of the ridge of mountains which divide the valley of Taos from Mora and Rayado, shall form and constitute a new county, to be known [as] and called the county of Mora. History: Laws 1859-1860, p. 76, § 9; C.L. 1865, ch. 42, § 18; C.L. 1884, § 258; C.L. 1897, § 524; Code 1915, § 1090; C.S. 1929, § 33-1601; 1941 Comp., § 15-1601; 1953 Comp., § 15-18-1.