conies in lc5 3 when the Surprise^ on her way from San Francisco to Hope, used she services of an Indian to pilot her up the Fraser River,- on this occasion the pilot came aboard "clad in a blanket ana received eight $20,00 gold pieces for his services? 1 In the same year a rather more orthodox gentleman, Captain Harry Glyae, who haa sailed from London to Victoria in the Otter in 1353, received from Sir James Douglas the first official pilot*s certificate. Later the same j^ear (135^) Governor Douglas issuea a Proclamation laying aown Harbour Rules and Regulations for the ports of Victoria and Esquimalt, although the first pilotage legislation in the form of an "Act to Establish."Pilots for the Port of Victoria’* was not passed until May 12, 1364 In this Act provision was made for a Board of Commissioners in Victoria to examine pilots, grant csrtificats and set compulsory pilotage rates, with exemptions only for ships owned in the Colony 5 and engaged in coastal trading or fishing> 1. N,.Hacking, Steamboat Round the Bend, Article in B.C, Historical Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 4, 2. Lewis and Dryden, Marine History of the Pacific North West, 3d. E.W. Wright, 1395, P.46. 3. D.B. Smith, The Early History of Pilotage in B.C. 1963, Provincial Archives of B.C, JGP 5m5 4. Ibid. 5. Report of Royal Commission, 1963, op.cit, P. 11.