The Six Acts
Defined in 1 dictionary — Black's (1910)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
The acts passed in 1819, for the pacification of England, are so called. They, in effect, prohibited the training of persons to arms; authorised general searches and seizure of arms; prohibited meetings of more than fifty persens for the discussion of public grievances; repressed with heavy penalties and cenfiscations seditious and blasphemous libsls; and checked pamphleteering by extending the newspaper stamp duty to political pamphlets. Brown.