Section 207. Discontinuance of highway

Whenever the town superintendent of
  any town shall determine that any portion of any highway or street,  not
  within  the  limits of an incorporated village, which is the terminus of
  such street or highway, is unnecessary for highway  purposes,  and  said
  town  superintendent  may,  by  an  order to be duly entered in the town
  clerk's office, direct such highway to be discontinued and abandoned for
  public purposes.  Provided, however, that no portion of such highway  to
  be  discontinued shall be greater than one thousand feet of the terminus
  thereof and that the owners of the land on both sides of such highway or
  street, for the distance it is proposed to discontinue the same,  shall,
  by  written  petition  to  such  town  superintendent have requested the
  discontinuance thereof.