Landing Place

A place laid out by a town as a common landing place and used as such, but not desigpated as for the particular benefit of the town, is a 'public landing place. It is not, however, a townway and liable to be discontinued as such by the town. If a public landing place is no longer of use the power to discontinue it is in the The public use of the laud of an individual, adjoining navigable waters, as a landing place, for a period of twenty years, with the knowledge of the owner, will not confer a right, nor raise a presumption of a dedication; Pearsall v. Post, 20 Wend. (N. ) 111; Post v. Pearsall, 22 Wend. (N. Y.) 5; Hewlett v. Pearsall, id. 559. When a highway is extended to navigable waters, the riparian owner has no exclusive right of landing; Fowler v. Mott, 19 Barb. (N. Y.) 204. Under authority to regulate landings and watering places, commissioners of highways have no right to lay out and establish a new landing place; Commissioners of Highways of North Hempstead v. Judges, 17 Wend. (N. Y.) 9; but when a road has been laid out and used as a highway to a public landing place for twenty years prior to March 21, 1797, but not sufficiently described, they may ascertain, describe, and enter of record such road, if it was constantly worked and used for six years next preceding: id. The selectmen of a town have no authority to lay out a public landing; Bethum v. Turner, 1 Greenl. -(Me.) Ill, 10 Am. Dec, 36.