Publication of authorized fares and distances.

(1) The Deputy Commissioner shall cause to be prepared a list in English and Tamil or other vernacular language of the fares published under section 31 and shall annex to such list a table showing the distances between the principal places to and from which hackney carriages commonly ply. The distances so shown shall be presumed to be correct. (2) Copies of such list and table shall be issued to all applicants on payment of a fee for each copy of twenty-five paise or of such other sum as the Deputy Commissioner subject to the control of the State Government may prescribe. (3) The driver of every hackney carriage standing or plying for hire shall have with him a copy of such list and table and shall on demand produce the same for the inspection of any police officer or for the information of any hirer of, or passenger by, his carriage under penalty on conviction by a magistrate of a fine not exceeding ten rupees.