 Intended to raise revenue, tighten customs enforcement, and assert imperial authority in America  Sponsored by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend and enacted on June 29, 1767  Key statute levied import duties on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea  Purpose was to provide salaries for some colonial officials (such as Judges and Governors) so provincial assemblies could not coerce them by withholding wages
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