the period commencing from to ........------ .................... .... ..............(both days inclusive) to tap and draw neera for the manufacture of gur or any other article which is not an intoxicant at (herein after called ("the place of manufacture") from the trees specified in the Schedule herein after appended (herein after referred to as "the said trees") growing within the limits of the village of in Ttaluka/tahsil] of ............................................the district of .... ....... ....and in the survey numbers specified in the said Schedule.
This licence is granted subject to the following conditions, namely;
Conditions
The licensee shall not tap any trees other than the said trees nor shall he allow any neera drawn under this licence to ferment.
Each of the said trees shall be marked and numbered at the expense of the licensee either by the licensee or by any agent duly authorised by him in this behalf in the manner specified in rule 9 of the Bombay Neera Rules, 1951. The licensee shall not tap or cause to be tapped any of the said trees or draw or cause to be drawn neera therefrom until the said trees are marked and numbered as aforesaid. Juice from any coconut, brab, date or any kind of palm tree shall not be drawn except in a receptacle. Such receptacle before it is used for drawing and collecting neera shall be washed with a freshly prepared solution of permanganate of potash and water. After it is so washed it shall be washed again with pure water in order to make it absolutely clean. After the receptacle is washed and rewashed as provided above, fresh milk of lime shall be put in such receptacle in the proportion of 3 cubic centimetres for every 2900 ml.2 of neera to be drawn there in.
Explanation.—In this condition—
- (i) "Milk of lime" means solution of water and pulp of quicklime in the proportion of 4:1; and
- (ii) "pulp of quicklime" means the pulpy precipitate obtained by the gradual addition of water to quicklime.
The licensee shall convey the entire quantity of the neera drawn by him from the said trees under this licence to the place of manufacture by a direct route and to no other place.
3No neera shall be kept at the place of manufacture beyond the day on which it is drawn unless it is kept in cold storage under the temperature at or below 4 °C or unless it's boiled, and no such boiled neera shall be kept for more than 24 hours from the time it is boiled.3
The licensee shall carry on the business either personally or by an agent duly authorised by him in this behalf by written 4authorisation certificate4 signed by himself The name of each agent and the date of his appointment shall be communicated forthwith in writing by the licensee to the Inspector of Prohibition and Excise having charge of the area in which the place of manufacture is situated. The licensee shall be responsible for the breach of any of the conditions of this licence by any persons so authorised.