The Clandestine Scientific Information Act is a government act relating to the sealing and protection of information concerning scientific inventions, achievements, and organizations, including the Order of the Brass Octopus. The act was proposed by the dewan and enacted in 1855. In Manners & Mutiny, it is revealed that the dewan has proposed the Act and is trying to persuade Lord Akeldama to support it. Little is specifically known about the Act by the general public, besides: