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Launches (not exceeding 60 tons) which ply outside the Local Trade Limits.
1. These regulations shall apply to every launch which has on board any passenger who is being carried for hire or reward except launches which do not ply out- side the Local Trade Limits as defined in the Merchant, Shipping Ordinance, 1899.
2. Every launch shall have metal side shields to protect the wheel, to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master.
3. If a launch has two decks:
(a.) It shall have, to the satisfaction of the Harbour Master. gratings cutting off the access of passengers from the lower to the upper deck.
(b) Watchmen, not exceeding four in number at the discretion of the Captain Superin- tendent of Police, shall be provided. Two of such watchmen shall keep watch under arms during the whole period of the voyage at the gratings on the bridge, the remaining watchmen shall keep watch under arms and be posted as directed by the Captain Super- intendent of Police.
(c.) No Chinese male passengers, except traders or merchants well known to the master. shall be allowed on the
deck. upper
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 bul- warks and reaching to the top of the awning stanchions. Such grating shall be kept closed.
(b.) Watchmen, not exceeding four in number at the discretion of the Captain Superintendent of Police, shall be provided. Two of such watchinen shall keep watch under arms dur- ing the whole period of the voyage forward of the grating, one on each side of the wheel. the remaining watchinen shall keep watch
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under arms and be posted as directed by the Captain Superintendent of Police.
() 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 the Captain Superintendent of Police who will appoint them to each launch as required and who shall have power to remove any watchman 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 à launch and everything which apparently is about to he 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 Superintendent of Police.
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.
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