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1985 - Exhibit 20, a bargain and sale deed conveying the property conveyed in exhibit 19. Applicant highlights that the description refers to blocks 2, 4 and 10. 1986 - Exhibit 15, annexation ordinance 136-1986, and ordinance 1988-139 correcting ordinance 136-1986, annexing block nine and streets into the City of St. Paul. Applicant highlights that the description in ordinance 1988-139 refers to block 9. 1994 - Exhibit 16, annexation ordinance 1994-161, annexing block 10 and part of a street to the City of St. Paul. Applicant highlights that the description refers to blocks 4 and 10. 1994 - Exhibit 18, a.partitioning plat that divides block 10 into three parcels. Applicant highlights that the description refers to block 10 of the addition to the town of St. Paul. Blocks are easy reference points in property descriptions, just as tax lots are easy references for describing property in this order, but neither are significant to the legal status of property. These documents have no association with applicant's property, which was conveyed by metes and bounds descriptions, not block references. Mission Farm addition, streets and blocks, was vacated in 1899. 8. In 1901, the City of St. Paul asked the county court to reverse its 1899 vacation order for streets surrounding certain named blocks. On May 3, 1901, the County Court issued the following: [I] t clearly appearing to the Court. . that this Court had no right, authority or jurisdiction to vacate said streets in the town of St. Paul or any of them, or to make or enter said order at all, in the proceeding wherein said order was granted, for the reason that the petition upon which said order was granted was not signed by the requester, or any number of householders residing in the vicinity of the streets proposed to be vacated. That the return and affidavit of the posting of the notices of the application for said order shows upon the face thereof, that said notices were not posted in the manner or at the places required by law to give the Court Jurisdiction to make said order. Now therefore all and singular, the law and the premises being fully considered by the Court, It is hereby ordered and adjudged that said order so made and entered on the 5th day of October, 1899, vacating said streets in the town of St. Paul, to-wit: vacating the streets around and adjacent to blocks 25-31-32-33-34- ADM-OI-02\ORDER - 8 SMITH