6.+Townshend+Acts

=The Townshend Acts (1767)= = = =The Townshend Acts were a series of acts created by **Charles Townshend** in order to decrease Britain's national debt.= = = =The New York Restraining Act= = = =The government of New York was suspended after they refused to comply with the Quartering Act.= = = =Customs Service Reorganization= = = =This created a new Board of Customs Commissioners stationed in Boston, authorized writs of assistance for use in discovering contraband and created new Admiralty Courts in Boston, Philadelphia and Charleston.= = = =Townshend Duties Act= = = =An external tax was created, since the colonists objected to the internal Stamp Act, on paint, paper, glass, lead and tea imported into the colonies.= = = =Important People= ==
 * Charles Townshend**- Chancellor of the Exchequer in the period following the repeal of the Stamp Act