The New Mexico Constitution

We, the people of New Mexico, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty, in order to secure the advantages of a state government, do ordain and establish this constitution.

The name of this state is New Mexico, and its boundaries are as follows:
Beginning at the point where the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude intersects the one hundred and third meridian west from Greenwich; thence along said one hundred and third meridian to the thirty-second parallel of north latitude; thence along said thirty-second parallel to the Rio Grande, also known as the Rio Bravo del Norte, as it existed on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty; thence, following the main channel of said river, as it existed on the ninth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, to the parallel of thirty-one degrees forty-seven minutes north latitude; thence west one hundred miles to a point; thence south to the parallel of thirty-one degrees twenty minutes north latitude; thence along said parallel of thirty-one degrees twenty minutes, to the thirty-second meridian of longitude west from Washington; thence along said thirty-second meridian to the thirty- seventh parallel of north latitude; thence along said thirty-seventh parallel to the point of beginning.

In compliance with the requirements of the act of Congress entitled “An act to enable the people of New Mexico to form a constitution and State government and be admitted to the Union on an equal footing with the original States; and to enable the people of Arizona to form a constitution and State government and be admitted into the Union on a equal footing with the original States,” approved June twentieth, nineteen hundred and ten, it is hereby provided:

That no inconvenience may arise by reason of the change from a Territorial to a State form of government, it is declared and ordained: