Mayor Sliupas of the seaside resort Polangen, who was author of a by-law prohibiting kosher slaughter which afterwards was cancelled by the Government as anti-constitutional, today resigned his post after the municipal council with only one dissenting veto refused to sanction an appeal to the Supreme Court against the Government’s decision.
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