Section 16. Power to farm fees

16. Power to farm fees. Farmer to grant licenses. List of licenses granted by farmer to be filed. 17. Farm may be cancelled. 18. Compensation to farmers in certain cases. 19. Recovery of arrears by farmers. 16. The Collector may, with the sanction of the Chief Revenue-authority, let in farm— (a) the fees leviable in any district or part of a district on licenses for the retail sale of any description of country spirit or country fermented liquor or (except in British Burma) of intoxicating drugs: (b) the right to manufacture, in any district or part of a district in which no distillery is established under section six, country spirit or country fermented liquor. When the fees so leviable or the right to manufacture such spirit or liquor, or both, are or is let in farm, the farmer may, subject to such reservations or restrictions as the Collector, with the sanction of the Chief-Revenue-authority, may from time to time make or impose, grant licenses for the retail sale, or for the manufacture, or for both, as the case may be, of such articles within the local limits of his farm, and shall file in the Collector's office a list of all the licenses granted by him in such form and on such day or days in each year as the Chief Revenue-authority may, from time to time, prescribe in this behalf.