I am directed by the Board of Trade to acknowledge your
               letter of the 
10th October, transmitting an Ordinance
               passed by the Legislature of 
British Columbia for the
               Regulation of Pilotage within that Colony and in reply I
               am to acquaint you for the information of the 
Earl of
                  Carnarvon that this Board see no reason why Her Majesty
               should not confirm the Ordinance in question.