64. Strength and quantity to be ascertained prior to compounding, blending, reducing or bottling foreign liquor.
- Foreign liquor shall not be compounded, blended or reduced or bottled before an account of its strength and quantity has been taken by the Excise Officer in charge of the warehouse or godowns. The whole of the contents of a cask, where casks are used, shall be bottled in one operation. As soon as the bottling is over the officer-in-charge shall ascertain the quantity bottled and adjust his accounts by writing off sullage and wastage.
