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  1. Overview: Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition]
  2. Full Record: Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition]
  3. Committee:Convention
  4. Session: 1910-11-08 09:30:00
  5. Event type: CREATE_FROM

Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition]

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Session 16046: 1910-11-08 09:30:00

The Convention receives reports from the Committee on Judiciary on Proposition Number 69 and Proposition Number 82. The Convention considers the Committee of the Whole recommendations on Propositions Number 2 and 82. The Convention receives a communication relative to the practice of medicine.

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Proposition Number 2 - State Boundaries

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A PROPOSITION

NO. 2.

Introduced by Mr. Webb of Graham County.

SUBJECT: STATE BOUNDARIES.

IT IS HEREBY PROPOSED THAT THE BOUNDARIES

Sec. 1. All of that portion of the territory of the United States included within the following limits, namely: Beginning at a point on the Colorado River, twenty English miles below the junction of the Gila and Colorado Rivers, as fixed by the Gadsden Treaty between the United States and Mexico, being in latitude thirty-two degrees, twenty-nine minutes, forty-four and forty-five one-hundredths seconds north and longitude one hundred fourteen degrees, forty-eight minutes, forty-four and fifty-three one-hundredths seconds west of Greenwich; thence along and with the international boundary line between the United States and Mexico in a southeastern direction to Monument No. one hundred twenty-seven on said boundary line in latitude thirty-one degrees, twenty minutes north; thence east along and with said parallel of latitude, continuing on said boundary line, to an intersection with the meridian of longitude one hundred nine degrees, two minutes, fifty-nine and twenty-five one-hundredths seconds west, being identical with the southwestern corner of New Mexico; thence north along and with said meridian of longitude and the west boundary of New Mexico to an intersection with the parallel of latitude thirty-seven degrees north, being the common corner of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico; thence west along and with said parallel of latitude and the south boundary of Utah to an intersection with the meridian of longitude one hundred fourteen degrees, two minutes, fifty-nine and twenty-five one-hundredths seconds west, being on the east boundary line of the State of Nevada; thence south along and with said meridian of longitude and the east boundary of said State of Nevada, to the center of the Colorado River; thence down the mid-channel of said Colorado River in a southern direction along and with the east boundaries of Nevada, California, and the Mexican State of Lower California, successively, to the place of beginning.

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