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4. If a launch has only one deck :
(a.) It shall have, to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master, a grating, with dodgers, fixed abaft the steering wheel, extending across the entire width of the deck and bulwarks and reaching to the top of the awning stanchions. Such grating shall be kept closed.
(b.) Two watchmen shall keep watch under arms forward of the grating, one on
either side of the wheel.
(c.) No Chinese male passengers, except traders or merchants well known to the
master, shall be allowed forward of the grating.
5. Watchmen must be requisitioned for to the Captain Superintendent of Police who will appoint them to each launch as required and who shall have power to remove any watchinan from any launch as he may think fit, and the owners, agents, charterers and licensees shall pay to the Colonial Treasurer on the first day of every month $15.00 for each watchman carried during the previous month or $7.50 for each watchman carried during the previous month if the launch has been laid up for more than 15 days in that month.
6. No launch shall commence its voyage or trip except from a place and at an hour previously notified to the Captain Superintendent of Police.
7. The Police shall have power to search every launch and every person and thing on board, and shall also have power to search every person who may apparently be about to go on board a launch and everything which apparently is about to be put on board.
8. No launch shall leave its wharf or moorings until the master has been notified by the Police that the search by them has been completed.
9. No person shall be allowed to embark on and nothing shall be brought on board any launch after the master has been notified by the Police that the search by them has been completed.
10. No launch shall call at any place in the Colony en route unless such place of call and the intended hour of departure therefrom has been notified to the Captain Superintend- ent of Police.
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11. If the Captain Superintendent of Police shall notify the owners, licensees or master that the Police will conduct a search at any such place of call, Regulations Nos. 7, 8 and 9 shall apply mutatis mutandis to such place of call.
12. If at any place of call no search is conducted by the Police the master shall cause all persons and things there taken on board to be searched by the watchmen.
13. A launch shall be deemed to call at a place if it take on board any person or thing from a boat as well as if it goes alongside a wharf or otherwise moors with a view to embarking or disembarking persons or things.
14. The master and crew shall render every assistance to the l'olice in their searches and shall use their best endeavours to see that no ammunition or arms are smuggled on board.
15. Every launch shall stop when hailed by the Police.
Ships (exceeding 60 tons.)
CONSTRUCTION.
1. Dodgers constructed of bullet proof material shall be erected on the bridge deck aft of the wheel house.
2. A strong and substantial grille of expanded metal or barbed wire shall be strongly and substantially erected across the ship aft of the line of the dodgers.
3. The bridge deck shall be protected from access from below by barbed wire.