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39-40-41-42-43-46-47 and 48 be and the same and the whole thereof is hereby vacated, annulled and set aside, and each and all the streets therein mentioned freed from all the force, operation and effect or apparent operation, force or effect of said order. Applicant interprets this order as undoing the entire 1899 vacation order, not just the order as it pertains to the listed blocks. According to applicant the order portion of the 1901 document should be read, 'It is hereby ordered and adjudged that said order is vacated " This is a plausible interpretation of the county court's order because the court said it had no jurisdiction to vacate the enumerated or any other streets within St. Paul. The better interpretation of the 1901 vacation order is that it reversed the previous vacation order only as to blocks 25-31-32- 33-34-39-40-41-42-43-46-47 and 48, just as requested by the petitioner. Finding otherwise would render that portion of the order reading 'vacating the streets around and adjacent to blocks 25-31-32-33-34-39-40-41-42-43-46-47 and 48 . . ." meaningless. It is, therefore, found that the May 3, 1901 order reinstates only blocks 25-31-32-33-34-39-40-41-42-43-46-47 and 48 and the streets around and adjacent to those blocks. Blocks 16, 17, 23, 24 and 26 remain vacated. The street north of block 25 was vacated later. 9. -.' If a?plicant's theory that the blocks wi thin S'-. Paul and the HissL'n Farm addition survive is correct, applicant fu:,:ther argues that the blocks, as divided by later land t~ansacti(>ns, are lawful, discrete parcels under ORS 92.017. ORS 92.017 provides: A lot or parcel lawfully created shall re~ain a C:lscrete lot or parcel, unless the parcel lines are vacated or the lot or parcel is further diuided, as provided by law. ORS 92. 017 was discussed in depth in Ki shpa uglJ v. Clackamas Ccünty, 24 Or LUBA 164 (1992). In Kishpaugh, at 172, LUBA examined the legislative history of ORS 92.017 and found: The text of ORS 92.017, and its legislative history, make it clear that the functions of ORS 92.0ë7 were (1) to prevent local governments from refusing to recognize lawful divisions of land such that lots and parcels could not be sold to third parties, and (2) to establish that the property lines established by such land divisions re~ain inviolate, absent the employment of a specific process to eliminate such péopeéty lines. ADM-01-02\ORDER - 9 SIUTH