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UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO STUDIES 



On the eastern slope the corners of Fremont county were straightened 

 out by the fifth and seventh assemblies of 1866 and 1868,^ while the county 

 of Las Animas made its appearance in the former year, formed from that 

 part of Huerfano county south of thirty-seven degrees and thirty minutes.^ 



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Map V. — 1870 — Eighth Assembly. 



The disappearance of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe reservation, and the 

 removal of the Indians, forced a revision of these southeastern lines in 

 1868, with the result that the seventh legislature restricted Huerfano 

 county to its modern irregular bounds and divided its old territory be- 

 tween Pueblo and Las Animas, its neighbors on the northeast and south- 

 east. ^ 



' An act of March ii, 1864 {Sess. Laws, 1864, p. 69), had given a conditional modification to Fremont, 

 depending upon a certain Beaver Creek. This act was repealed by the act of February 6, 1866 {Sess. Laws, 

 1866, p. 47). The later act of January 6, 1868 {Revised Statutes, 1868, p. 163), substituted the range of moun- 

 tains east of the Arkansas River for the original northwestern line, the new line crossing the Arkansas three 

 mUes below the mouth of the South Arkansas in order to connect with the range mentioned. 



' February 9, 1866 {Sess. Laws, 1866, p. 49). » 



3 Act of January 9, 1868 {Revised Statutes, 1868, p. 164). These Revised Statutes were authorized by 

 the seventh assembly and form the first revision of Colorado laws. 



