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7. it vacated only the streets within the plat, and the blocks remain separate lots, each enlarged by a half share of vacated right-of- way. 6. The Planning Division staff found that the county court's 1899 vacation order was effective, and that it eliminated all blocks and streets within the Mission Farm addition, including the blocks and streets containing the subj ect property. The Planning Division staff also found that all transfers relating to the subject property were conveyances by metes and bounds descriptions. According to the Planning Division, the vacation of the plat or conveyance by a metes and bounds description is enough to vacate the block lines contained within the subject property. Based on its analysis, the Planning Division staff determined that applicant has only one legal lot. In 1899, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Diocese of Oregon asked the county court to vacate the Mission Farm addition to the City of St. Paul and certain streets within the originally platted city. On October 5, 1899, the county court issued the following order: It is therefore ordered that the prayer of said petitioner be granted and that the following streets and additions to the town of St. Paul be vacated, viz. The addition to the town of st. Paul as laid out by W. H. Gross and recorded in said County on the 16th day of February 1891 in book of town plats vol. 2 on page 16 thereof. Also vacating all streets in the town of St. Paul, said County and State, except those adjacent to and abutting the following blocks in the said town of St. Paul, to- wit, Blocks numbered forty-five (45), forty-four (44), one hundred and nine (109), sixty-two (62), thirty- seven (37), thirty-eight (38), thirty-five (35), thirty-six (36), twenty-nine (29), thirty (30), twenty- eight (28), twenty-seven (27), thirteen (13), fourteen (14), twelve (12), five (5) and the west half of Block thirty-one (31), which said block thirty-one is on the north side of Center Street. Applicant interprets this order as vacating only streets within the Mission Farm plat, and not blocks. Applicant assigns significance to different recording dates on the Mission Farm addition plat map and plat narrative. The plat map is annotated as recorded on January 22, 1891, and the narrative is annotated as recorded February 16, 1891. According to applicant, the 1899 ADM-oI-02\ORDER - 6 SMITH