No. 18

I have received and laid before the Queen the Ordinance No. 15,
passed by the Legislature of British Columbia at its last Session
entitled "An Ordinance for the regulation of Pilotage" which accompanied
Mr. Birch's Despatch, No. 44, of the 1st June, and I am commanded to
inform you that Her Majesty has been Graciously pleased to sanction and
confirm it.

You will communicate Her Majesty's decision with respect to this
Ordinance to the inhabitants of the Colony under your Government in the
usual and most authentic manner.