4-4-1: [Original county boundaries.]

All that part of the territory comprised within the following limits, to wit: to the north and east by the boundaries of the territory of New Mexico; to the south the boundaries of the grant made to Carlos Beaubien and Guadalupe Miranda, and known as the Rayado grant, and on the west the boundaries of the county of Taos, shall form and constitute a new county to be known as, and called, Colfax county.