(4)General Instructions for the Sale of Country Spirit Under the Canteen SystemNote.-The system was introduced mainly to control liquor consumption and to prevent distillation or sale of illicit liquor and sale of pachwai (Laopani) in or in the vicinity of tea estates, with the co-operation of the garden managers. It is also the object to obviate as far as may be the evils attending on the drink habit among the labouring classes. The system will not cost the gardens anything nor the garden managers will have any direct control over the shop although it will be open to them to exercise a considerable latitude in the details in the details of management such as adulteration, short measure and drunkenness. The licensee will be selected by the Deputy Commissioner and the spirit will be taken from a warehouse. He will have to pay Government the duty, vend fee and cost price for the spirit issued and in return he will get a rebate as full reimbursement of wages of all persons employed at the canteen and as a payment of rent for the canteen premises, cost of carriage of liquor and such other incidental expenses connected with the opening of the canteen shop.
