<P> 3 .) When a report published in the newspaper was judged as seditious, the newspaper was warned . </P> <P> 4 .) No Indian was allowed to carry arms without license </P> <P> The first periodicals in India were under the control of East India Company, and the press sometimes created a problem for the interests of the company . This resulted in the first two papers being banned--one started by Bolt and the Bengal Gazette . Lord Wellesley regulated the press again in 1899; according to which press had to show and get approval of the government before the publication of any manuscript including advertisement . During the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the "Gagging Act" had been passed by Lord Canning which sought to regulate the establishment of printing presses and to restrain the mad of printed mater . All presses had to have a license from the government with distinction between publications in English and other regional languages . The Act also held that no printed material shall impugn the motives of the British Raj, tending to bring it hatred and contempt and exciting unlawful resistance to its orders . When the British Government found that the Gagging Act was not potent enough to repress all nationalist sentiments, it created a more forcible law, designed in part by Sir Alexander John Arbuthnot and Sir Ashley Eden, Lieutenant Governor of Bengal . </P> <P> At the time the Vernacular Press Act was passed, there were thirty five vernacular papers in Bengal, including the Amrita Bazar Patrika, the editor of which was one Sisir Kumar Ghose . Sir Ashley Eden summoned him and offered to contribute to his paper regularly if he gave him final editorial approval . Ghose refused, and remarked that "there ought to be at least one honest journalist in the land ." The Vernacular Press Act might be said to have grown from this incident . About the time the Act was passed, Sir Ashley remarked in a speech that forty five seditious writings published in fifteen different vernacular papers were presented to him before the Act was finalized . </P>

Which act of the british was termed as the gagging act