Answer:
to find smuggled goods
Step-by-step explanation:
The writs of assistance were documents that worked as a general warrant order for British officers on merchant boats or buildings, they could enter and search any building and boats were they thought that they were hidding smuggled goods. The writs of assistance were stated by the Governor of Massachusetts in 1760, as a response to the trading of the american colonies with the French and other trade-forbidden empires.