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<br />4.
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<br />Administrator forwarded the application to the hearings officer
<br />for determination. The hearings officer may hear and decide this
<br />matter.
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<br />3.
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<br />The plat for the City of St. Paul was recorded on July 27, 1875.
<br />A plat map for the Mission Farm addition to the City of St. Paul
<br />was recorded on January 22, 1891, and the plat narrative was
<br />recorded on February 16, 1891. The subject property is contained
<br />within or around portions of blocks 25 and 26 of the original town
<br />plat, and blocks 16, 17, 23 and 24 of the Mission Farm addition.
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<br />In 1899, the Mission Farm addition, and all streets within the
<br />originally platted City of st. Paul, except streets surrounding
<br />certain blocks, were vacated by the county court (equivalent to
<br />the board of county commissioners). All of the blocks and streets
<br />containing the subject property were vacated, except McDonald
<br />Avenue along block 26, and 3'. Street along one half of block 26.
<br />In 1901, the vacation of certain streets (or all streets,
<br />depending on the interpretation of the order) was reversed by the
<br />county court. Block 25 was one of the blocks named in the reversal
<br />order. An appeal of the vacation reversal and a motion to dismiss
<br />the appeal were filed. The outcome of the appeal is unknown.
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<br />The case file contains several conveyance instruments, documenting
<br />the history of the subject property. A portion of the subject
<br />property was conveyed in 1882, by the Archbishop of Oregon City
<br />to B. Delorme. The parcel included, more or less, what is now map
<br />4 2W 19AD, tax lots 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000 and a portion of 4th
<br />Street. The parcel was conveyed to Peter Kirk in 1892 (correction
<br />deed recorded in 1893), to Peter P. Kirk in 1899, to the Roman
<br />Catholic Archbishop of the Diocese of Oregon in 1900, and to
<br />Sebastian Joseph and Mary Josephine McDonald in 1903.
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<br />In 1903, the Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and
<br />Mary conveyed a parcel containing portions of 4 2W 19AD 3600, 4100
<br />and 4200 and portions of McDonald Avenue and 2nd Street to S. J. and
<br />Mary J. McDonald. In 1918, the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus
<br />and Mary sold S.J. McDonald a parcel containing the rest of 4 2W
<br />19AD 2600, 4100 and 4200, and lots 100 (minus its small panhandle
<br />on vacated 3rd Street), 3700, 3800, 3900 and portions of 2nd Street
<br />and Lucier Avenue.
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<br />In February 1951, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Diocese of
<br />Oregon conveyed to Mary Josephine McDonald, a large parcel,
<br />containing 4 2W 19AD lots 100, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000,
<br />1100, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1600, 1700, 1701, 3600, 3700, 3800, 3900,
<br />4000, 4100, 4200, portions of 2nd, yd, 4th and 5th Streets and
<br />portions of Mission, McDonald and Lucier Avenues. In March 1951,
<br />Mary Josephine McDonald conveyed the entire parcel, plus block 28
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<br />SMITH
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